From body fluids to belly laughs...
Always great to learn about original meaning of words, and how that can drift/shift over time!
English can be a tricky old language at the best of times. Then just when you've cracked it, they move the goalposts!
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.
Very good! Except I now can’t stop “The foot bone’s connected to the leg bone” playing in my head
Always great to learn about original meaning of words, and how that can drift/shift over time!
English can be a tricky old language at the best of times. Then just when you've cracked it, they move the goalposts!
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.
Very good! Except I now can’t stop “The foot bone’s connected to the leg bone” playing in my head