KNOWLEDGE IS
AMUSING
[1]
FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).
[2] POP MUSIC is
'Popular Music' shortened.
[3] MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized
Pedaling'.
[4] BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.
[5] DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew
after Dinner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped..
[6] NEWS refers to
information from Four directions N, E, W, and S.
[7] AG-MARK, which
some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
[8] QUEUE comes
from 'Queen
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