In 1631, a Dutch physician reported that Malays had informed him the orangutan could talk, but preferred not to "lest he be compelled to labour". One of my favorite fun facts is that the name orangutan comes from the Malay orang hutan which just translates to forest guy. Like oh that's just the forest guy.
Amazing Maps. How a Germanic Term for Soap Reached Aboriginal Australian Languages. The map illustrates the etymological path of the word 'soap' from Germanic languages (English 'soap', W. Germanic '*saipā', Frankish '*saipā') through Latin ('sāpō'), Ancient Greek ('sáppōn'), Syriac ('ṣappōnā'), Arabic ('ṣābūn'), Malay ('sabun'), Makassarese ('sabu
When Sweden and Denmark play a football match, the names of the countries are shortened and we have SWE-DEN.
What’s more interesting, the remaining letters are DEN-MARK.
Thinking again about how the names Arctic and Antarctic just means “bears” and “no bears.”
So as an Antarctic expert I need to add to this that we had not in fact been to Antarctica when it was named. The ancient Greeks decided that because there was an Arctic at the top of the world, with bears, there had to be an opposite at the other end, witho
Thinking again about how the names Arctic and Antarctica just means “bears” and “no bears.”
So as an Antarctic expert I need to add to this that we had not in fact been to Antarctica when it was named. The ancient Greeks decided that because there was an Arctic at the top of the world, with bears, there had to be an opposite at the other end, with
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