In an atmospheric episode of their incredibly informative whiteboard series for Mental Floss ,linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually offer examples of common words in the English language that originate from terms describing certain weather conditions, such as detonate. The root of detonate is the Latin tonare, and thunder. De-tonare […]The post Words in the English Language That Originate From Terms Describing Weather Conditions appeared first on Laughing Squid.
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