Our salty vocabulary dates back to a time when English speakers were fascinated with life at sea

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The commonly used “blood is thicker than water” is a proverb in English meaning that familial bonds will always be stronger than other relationships. The oldest record of this saying can be traced back in the 12th century in German by the philosopher Evan Franklin. The well-known idiom “blood is thicker than water” is used to say that someone’s family and blood ties are more crucial in their life than any other person, relationship, or need.

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The sun, the moon, four gods, and a goddess.

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**Nostalgia** is a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past. The ancient Greek word *nostimon* is an etymological ancestor of *nostalgia*. It was first used in Homer's *Odyssey* in which Odysseus tells us: "But I desire and I long every day to go home and to look upon the day of my return." Odysseus experiences profound homesickness for Greece and longs for his “day of return” — or *nostimon emar.* In the late 1600s, Swiss medical student Johannes Hofer noticed a pattern in his patients who were living far from home. Those who were obsessed with returning to their estranged locations became physically, sometimes fatally, sick. Symptoms included bouts of weeping, palpitations, insomnia, slow fever, and anorexia. To reflect this phenomena, he coined the medical term “*nostalgia*” in 1688, which he created by combining the Greek words *nostos* (homecoming) and *alga* (pain). By the 19th century, *nostalgia* was regarded as a psychiatric disorder, namely a form of melancholia and depression. Today, *nostalgia* sheds its medical connotations and expands upon its original meaning of homesickness. It is widely regarded to have taken on a more positive meaning, expanding beyond homesickness to include a sentimental longing for past people, places, events, or various objects.

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The similarity of "envious" and "oblivious" is coincidental: - *envious* is just *envy* + *-ous*, where envy is from Latin *invidia* "envy". - *oblivious* is from Latin *obliviosus*, from *oblivium* "forgetfulness" + *-osus* "-ous".

Other onions used to be called leeks too Ynneleac -\> Onion Crawleac -\> Crowleek (*Allium Vineale*) Ryscleac -\> Rushleek (Chives) Unfortunately, there's a bunch of -leacs that we don't know what they referred to

Yep! Surprising but true! *Alone* is first attested as Middle English *allone*, and earlier as two words, *all oon*. *Lone* comes from a later shortening of *alone* (*[Apheresis](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apheresis_(linguistics))* is the technical term). *Alone* and *one* don't rhyme anymore because of the irregular change from /oːn/ to /wʊn/ in Late Middle to Early Modern English. See also *only*, which comes from *one* + *-ly*.