Our todays topic happens to be the old good expression “bang for the buck” have you ever wondered where that word came from? Well if you don’t know, time to expose it..
“Bang for the buck” means getting the most for the amount you have paid. The phrase is a Cold War military expression with sinister suggestions of atomic and other explosive devices. Before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the United States and its allies in the West were engaged in a series of confrontations and skirmishes with the former Soviet Union and its satellite states. “Bang for the buck” described how efficiently the American defense (and offence) budgets were being spent.
As poet and playwright T.S. Eliot wrote in “The Hollow Men” in 1925, “This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper.”
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Browsing through my book I found another puzzling question and something I am sure most of you would love to know as it is something we all ponder about. How did the word moron come to mean stupid?
Well here is the answer to this pondering question —
We have all been called a moron at one time or another and understood it to mean we’ve done something foolish. The reason is that in 1910 De. Henry H. Goddard (1866-1957) proposed the word to the American Association for the Study of the Feebleminded to describe an adult with a mental capacity (IQ below 75) of a normal child between eight and twelve years of age. A moron was, in fact, the highest proposed rating of a mentally challenged person. The two lowest ratings suggested were imbecile and idiot. These categories have been dropped by the scientific community and are no longer in use — except as an insult!
Moron is from the Greek moros, meaning “stupid” or “foolish.”
So there you go guys, that is what I stumbledupon through my piles of dusty books. More to come..
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I stumbled upon this fun stuff yesterday and I thought I should share it with you guys.
Do you guys know what are the most common words in the English language?
Well, the most common word used in written English is the, followed in order of use by of, and, to, a, in, that, is, I, it, for, and as. The most common spoken English word is I. The most common word in the King James Bible is the.
I got this little gem question from one of my books, I will share more of these stuff..
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