Pain in the ananas: etymology maps | News | theguardian.com
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Who would have thought that the marriage of two tiny little words - pine from the Latin ’pīnus’ meaning “sap, juice” and apple from ’apple’ meaning “apple” would have split the UK from the rest of the world way back when it was first recorded in 1398?
And what about the word orange? Or beer? Or bear? Or church? Do our language lands collide or do they coincide? Find out with these eight fun etymology maps complete with terrible puns.
