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GarandMarine:
You should learn at least one new thing every day!
What did you guys learn today?
I learned that the Mason-Dixon (sometimes incorrectly called the Mason-Dixie) line is all the way up here in freaking DELAWARE.
That said, eat it yankees!
cesium133:
It's the line between Maryland and Pennsylvania. The town I grew up in is only a couple miles from it. Though, to be fair, most of Maryland is just a couple miles from it.
Carl-E:
I learned how to pronounce the original German lyrics for "Es ist ein ros entsprungen" for our christmas concert today...
Akima:
I discovered a couple of days ago that the English word "loot" is from the Hindi (originally Sanskrit) word for "rob".
Valdís:
I read stuff about some of the original Nordic figures Christians transposed old Mediterranean saints onto to co-opt those traditions.
--- Quote from: Akima on 22 Oct 2013, 14:35 ---I discovered a couple of days ago that the English word "loot" is from the Hindi (originally Sanskrit) word for "rob".
--- End quote ---
Speaking of which.. The Norse word for robbery "rán" - and rån/ran in modern Swedish and Danish respectively - is also the name of Rán, Goddess of the Sea.
Gee, I wonder how they ended up making that association! :roll:
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