[NativeSon]

I'm glad you posted that sentence because I could never figure out why "corned beef" was called "corned beef".

I have always been interested in language and word origins. I picked up some years ago a "history of words" -it was the ultimate bathroom reader.

It is one thing to know what words mean and quite another as to 'why'.

[Jessarah]

I have a word origins dictionary, and it’s pretty fascinating. Of course a lot of this stuff is online now.