COPYWRITER ALERT: 10 Words with Some Very Odd Origins
So, you think you’re a “word nerd.” You brag about your disease “logophilia.” You believe “etymology” is something that deserves a CSI spinoff. You can torch anyone in Scrabble and AP-Styleguide update recalls.
We get it; however, there are a few words in the PR lexicon that have some unusual origins. Seems that some words you write almost everyday derived from a dank warehouse in the middle of a meth lab complex…or something like that.
These words?! Not so much, as you will soon see.
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