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A map of the word nothing in several different languages and its etymology
Basil, the king This etymology map is about the names of one culinary herb, basil. It comes from βασιλικόν φυτόν (basilikón phutón) “royal (plant)” in Ancient Greek. The …
Hazelnut Walnut Byzantines knew them as “royal nut”. For Germanic speakers is a “Welsh nut” because it came from Italy through France. We are just …
Maps about the diversity of the Spanish language vocabulary
Wikipedia language codes are the letters at the beginning of the address for each language version. They are not the same as Internet top-level domains, …
“That’s Greek to me” or “It’s all Greek to me” is an idiom used when you can not understand something. The origin might be in …
Bookworm is an umbrella term, more popular than scientific, for the holes caused by larvae of various types of insects. This includes a huge variety of …