You Are Wrong About the Origin of These 12 Common Words.
Whether we’re talking about “shit,” “fuck,” or “fillet,” people love to make up funny stories to explain the origins of commonly used words. False etymology is funny: explaining that “fuck” comes from signs worn by adulterers, reading “for illicit carnal relations” is much more fun than pointing to the Indo-European root – peuk. But if you ask this pedant, fun is hardly as important as accuracy, so enjoy learning the true origin of the following 12 words that didn’t actually come from where one kid said they came from.