A Victorian housemaid would always use a buffalo leather cloth to polish the furniture. This didn’t come from American buffalo (which are, technically, bison), but from European oxen (which are, technically, buffalo). Once upon a time, in the 19th century, buffalo leather was very popular. If I added that the phrases in the buff, looking buff, and buff up were all also short for buffalo, the confusion would not alleviated at all. If I told you that the buff in film buff is short for buffalo, you would probably remain a little confused as to why. And sometimes it’s obvious the moment that you are told: Why do pop singers have fans? It’s because fan is just a shortening of fanatic, just as van is a shortening of caravan or the radio sign-off wilco is a shortening of will comply.īut sometimes the explanation needs a little bit more. Sometimes, the origin of a word is obvious the moment that you think of: if something is familiar, it’s like family. Language is strange despite being familiar, and often the familiarity hides the strangeness. And that is why a piece of high-tech is named after a Viking with a funny smile. So they panicked and released it with the working title. But at the last moment they discovered that another company had just launched a product with that name. Management had already decided to call the product Pan when it was released.
As a joke, he gave the project the working title of Bluetooth.īluetooth was never meant to be used officially. It so happened that a thousand years later, in 1996, a computer programmer called Jim Kardach was reading a historical novel set during his reign, while also devising a system to unite various different realms of technology.
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Harald Bluetooth united the warring provinces of Denmark into a single nation. The answer is that it’s named after Harald Bluetooth the 10th-century Viking king of Denmark, who did actually have blue teeth, for reasons lost to both history and dentistry. Why is it called that? Why when you desperately try and fail to connect your speakers to your phone, do you try to activate blue teeth? An epic history can lie behind some terribly mundane word that you use every day and never thought twice about. But etymology does make the world a funnier and more beautiful place.
That’s why it’s very rarely taught in schools, as schools are subject to the Tyranny of the Useful. There’s nothing in the subject that will qualify you for a job, or make you money, or save you in an emergency. You don’t really learn anything useful from etymology. But once you know this history, and know this origin, you can still imagine those ancient warriors charging bravely to their deaths shouting again and again “Should’ve gone to Specsavers! Should’ve gone to Specsavers!” And from there it got dragged off into the world of advertising, where it has become debased and familiar. From there the word started to mean the motto of any particular group, usually political. It became customary for nobles and chieftains to put this motto on their coat of arms, and so, in heraldry, those words written on the ribbony thing under the shield became known as the slogan. This slua-gairm could be the name of the clan, or some sort of motto. The two armies would face each other, draw their ancient swords, and charge, whilst shouting over and over again their army-cry or slua-gairm. Once upon a very long time ago, noble Gaelic warriors would muster for battle on some misty moor. La colonna sonora orchestrale è stata affidata al musicista Carter Burwell, già autore della colonna sonora orchestrale di Twilight.The word slogan, as in advertising slogan, is an ancient Irish word. 2 (Original Motion Picture Score) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt.
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Carter Burwell – Plus Que Ma Propre Vie – 4:15.Christina Perri – A Thousand Years, Pt.Paul McDonald e Nikki Reed – All I've Ever Needed – 3:56.A Boy and His Kite – Cover Your Tracks – 4:31.Vincent (musicista) – The Antidote – 3:39 The Boom Circuits – Everything and Nothing – 4:25.L'album è stato pubblicato il 16 novembre 2012 Tracce Il CD contiene i brani di vari artisti di genere alternativo tra cui la cantante inglese Ellie Goulding, il gruppo Green Day e la cantante Christina Perri, la quale interpreta, con il cantante Steve Kazee, una seconda versione del brano A Thousand Years, già presente nell'album The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt. 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) è la colonna sonora ufficiale del film del 2012 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Parte 2. 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt. 2 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt.1 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt.
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