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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Feel it in my Bones
Shakespeare Timon of Athens. ‘I feel’t upon my bones.’
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
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
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.”