I’ve often wondered if being fascinated by the origin of words is a truly academic pursuit or merely laying the groundwork as a future creator of “dad jokes”. For instance, I get a chuckle that, despite being derived from the original Latin, ‘Barcino’, the modern name of Barcelona can be broken down into bar, cel, ona or in English, bar, sky, wave. This wasn’t lost on promotions and in a pre-1992 Olympics period of 1986, this was the message they were pushing. It may have seemed like a good idea […]
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