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Elisabeth Bik's avatar

Always great to learn about original meaning of words, and how that can drift/shift over time!

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Jon Cousins's avatar

English can be a tricky old language at the best of times. Then just when you've cracked it, they move the goalposts!

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Tony Rocca's avatar

Then there is the humerus, the upper arm bone connected to the elbow where you find the funny bone, except that’s not a bone at all but a nerve. Funny, that.

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Jon Cousins's avatar

Very good! Except I now can’t stop “The foot bone’s connected to the leg bone” playing in my head

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