Now, here’s a word for you: weird. I looked it up and found a trail back to around 1400 C.E. (C.E. stands for Common Era, a secular way to say A.D., which, by the way, means “Anno Domini,” or the “Year of our Lord” in Latin, and NOT “After Death”). Anyway, an online search gives […]
Tag: etymology
A good steward
Some years ago, the term “janitor” was quietly upgraded to “custodian.” Being the type who gets a huge kick out of words-and-where-they-come-from, I looked first at the word “janitor.” Fascinating! The first definition uses “custodian” as a synonym, while the second digs a bit deeper into the etymology. Apparently, this word first came to us […]