I am easily distracted. I should be studying for my Communication History midterm, but here I am writing.
I am reading about newspapers at the moment. There is a precursor to newspapers as we know them today called "corantos". These were weekly journals starting in 1609 in German cities written and dispersed by postmasters.
The word "corantos" certainly did not sound like a German word- Spanish, I thought. So I looked it up. Apparently it comes from the French "courante". After discovering that I went back to reading. Once I was in the section of British Newspapers I noticed "The Daily Courant". Hmmm, sounds an aweful lot like "Current", a title of some newspapers. I was solving a mini-mystery!
So I looked up the meaning; "Current" originally comes from Latin currere "to run" and Old French corant "running". So interesting! Especially since I just received my package by courier from Gen (thanks again!).
I feel like I'm Marina from HotForWords, but can you think of any other related words?
And off I go... Back to the studying!
ahah oh megan! do you actually follow hotforwords? as you reveal your little bits of info i found myself following the same train of thought as yourself!
ReplyDeletebut yea, you should get back to studying...you wouldn't have to if you were cool like me and now on reading week! (h) hahah =p
I did watch HotForWords for a little bit. But the boobs and constant tactics to sell products in the videos got really annoying. It would be cool if someone else would do videos like that without the low-cut tops. But sex sells right? ... Well, for some.
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