When it comes to finding the root word of something, what's been one of the more surprising entries or what are some of your favorite etymologies? Because there's a story behind all of them. The pathway doesn't go very far, particularly with slangs, because they don't have the written citation. I really like the etymology of the word mediocre. And I don't know why it is, but it means halfway up a jagged hill. What an evocative thing. God, I never knew that one.

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