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Do We Know Where the Word Spit Comes From?

Spit is a word made by humans for the human experience of what is the stuff in my mouth. The act of spitting, you spray as you say the word spit. And so like spew becomes from words like spittle or any version of that spaiten spattle. Sam and Sarah get to fight against each other to see if they can acquire some points with this quiz.

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You need to clean a smudge of your glasses? Use some spit! Gotta make some food moist so you can swallow it? Why not try spit? Lips too dry to whistle a tune? My friend, spit is the bodily excretion for you! Spit: don't leave home without it!

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[Trivia Question]

Minor salivary glands

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-may-have-discovered-new-organ-set-salivary-glands-hidden-your-head-180976104/

[Fact Off]

Bowerbird making “paint” out of saliva

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996615/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2005.0908-8857.03549.x

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347213001097?via%3Dihub