Name: Misnomers
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T09:24:45.000Z
Duration: 11 min 26 s
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Reflexive pronouns

I'm sorry. Look, I didn't name myself but apparently

Michael is the ninth most disliked baby name

according to a survey by BabyNameWizard.com

At least it didn't top the charts like the rhyming

Names can be more than just controversial - they can also be

And I'm not talking about the daughter of Mr. Nomer.

an infinity pool, the world's largest column-less glass house,

the laboratories where scientists genetically design custom orchids

humid air that condensed all over my cool glasses.

In fact, it's believed that no Lions have ever

in Singapore, even though Singapore comes from a Malay word for

It's believed that in 1299 when Sang Nila Utama named Singapore,

he mistakenly thought that a tiger he saw was a Lion.

is the biggest mystery of them all, did I

and since May I have been to Australia, New Zealand.

The guy in these photos has never been there.

You see, in Old English the word 'apple' was used to describe

For instance, dates were 'finger apples' and bananas

In French the word for 'apple' acted similarly,

In the Middle Ages the old French word for

And the Swedish word for orange still means 'apple'

from China because Orange's originated in the East.

But this leads us to an even bigger question: what came first

The word 'orange' comes from the Sanskrit word for the tree

to these fruits the English-speaking world called this colour

The first recorded use of the word 'orange' to refer to the colour,

which was named after the tree that it came from.

Well, botanically a fruit is a part of a flowering plant that disseminates

seeds, like an apple or an orange or a lemon or a grape.

In cooking, because they're not sweet, we tend to call things like wheat grains

vegetables, even though they are actually fruits.

Vegetable is a culinary term for other edible parts of a plant that

tastes like a vegetable but scientifically

which means that corn on the cob is really just a bunch

vegetables because they aren't even plants.

Names can also be confusing because of Stigler's Law -

not after who discovered them, or originated them, but instead

They were named after John Venn in the 1880s,

although Leonhard Euler actually introduced them

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