I think opinion polls are called that because a long time ago, people expressed their opinions by hitting other people with a large poll. That or they just carved their opinion on a large wooden poll.

#FakeEtymology

I like to think that they're called malls because people would ask, "what store do you want to go to?" and the response would be "let's go to them all," which over time evolved into "the mall."

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fungible: that which you can funge

portable: that which you can port

capable: that which you can cap

parable: that which you can para

table: that which you can ta

cable: that which you can ca

able: that which you can

risible: that which you can risi

unflappable: that which you can unflap

comfortable: that which you can comfort

responsible: that which you can respons

#EnglishLanguage #FakeEtymology #nonsense

Just put way too much thought into a throwaway joke about how #Grahamstodon is a purebred Australian Fool, and his pedigree name is Meridionali Stultus Griseoviculus

I wanted to blend the tropes of cat pedigree names (breeder name/cat name) and Roman nomenclature (praenomen, nomen, cognomen)

I don’t know why I picked #Latin as the lingua felem nomen

So my cattery is branded as Meridionali Stultus – which sounds like a plausible name for a breeder of Australian Fools – but also Graham is a member of the gens Stultii and his praenomen is Meridionali

although in Latin maybe Meridianus would be a better praenomen

Anyway, one possible etymology of the name Graham is ‘grey hamlet’, so I have made an equivalent cod-Latin mashup as his cognomen

#FakeEtymology #caturday #caturnalia

Trebuchet, from French "tre" meaning "very, a lot" and "buchet" meaning "a fat bucket"

Yes I made this up. #FakeEtymology #etymologie