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The word barbecue appeared in English in the 1690s. It meant a framework used to grill meat or fish. The word came from American Spanish barbacoa. That word came from the Taíno word barbakoa, from an Arawakan language of the Caribbean. It described a wooden frame of sticks on posts used in the West Indies to sleep on or to cure meat. 🔥🍖🌴 [Read more] Request: Send your favorite BBQ pictures, gifs, videos and especially recipes here. 🍗🥩 @googlefactss #etymology#wordhistory#language#foodhistory#historyfacts

‘Calculate’ comes from the Latin word ‘calculus’ meaning pebble. Ancient people used pebbles to count and do calculations, like on an abacus. The abacus 🧮 itself comes from Latin abacus, meaning “board,” and was used to move beads or pebbles for counting. 🪨➕📊 [Read more 1] [Read more 2] @googlefactss #funfact#etymology#words#history#language#abacus

Whisky (or whiskey) comes from the Gaelic word "uisge" or "uisce," meaning "water." It is related to the Latin "aqua vitae," which means "water of life." In Gaelic, this was "uisce beatha," meaning the same. 🥃 [Read more] @googlefactss#Whisky#Etymology#Language

The Polish word for seal is foka. [Read more] @googlefactss #language#FunFact #MemeSunday

fox(n.) Old English fox "a fox," from Proto-Germanic fuhsaz "fox" (cognates Old Saxon vohs, Middle Dutch and Dutch vos, Old High German fuhs, German Fuchs, Old Norse foa, Gothic fauho), from Proto-Germanic fuh-, from PIE puk- "tail" (source also of Sanskrit puccha- "tail"). [Source] @googlefactss #fox#language#NowYouKnow

Did you know? The word "bear" actually means "the brown one" or "honey-eater"! 🐻🍯 Long ago, people were so afraid of bears they stopped using their real name. Now we just call them "bears" instead. 🍽️ [Source] @googlefactss #FunFact#Language#Bears#NowYouKnow #HeWhoShallNotBeNamed

Klingon is the most widely spoken fictional language. [Source] [learn] @googlefactss #klingon#StarTrek #language#FunFact

Onychophagia (nail biting) and onychotillomania (nail picking) are chronic nail conditions categorized as body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB) disorders. [learn more here] @googlefactss#FingerLickingGood #health#Language

A word you may not know, but certainly will make "some" people chuckle: Tittynope (n) tit-ee-n-oh-p A small quantity of something left over. 🌚 @googlefactss [Source] #funfact#language

Rubatosis is the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat [source] @googlefactss#heart#FeelTheBeat#language