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Life Names

Fido

A popular name for dogs, it actually derived from the Latin word for ‘trusting’
It seems that dogs have always been a faithful companion for humankind.

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Literary

Feel it in my Bones

Shakespeare Timon of Athens. ‘I feel’t upon my bones.’

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Life Oddities

Dungeon

The word was derived from the Latin words for ‘lord’ and ‘House’. It used to mean ‘the house of a lord’.

It later came to mean the rooms underneath the lord’s castle

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Everyday Life Oddities

Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children–last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it–hence the saying

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Everyday Life Literary

Doesn’t Have a Leg to Stand On

John Neil (1825) – Brother Jonathan
“As if the Yankee man were determined to leave the briggadier without a leg to stand upon, as a lawyer would say.”