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Word for Wednesday: Peony

Our Word for Wednesday theme for August is flowers.  The word flower entered English around 1200 as ‘flour’ (with spelling variants including ‘flur’, ‘flor’, ‘floer’, ‘flor’, ‘floyer’, and ‘flowre’). It comes from the Old French ‘flor’, from the Latin ‘florem’. The word was used in reference to both blooms and grain until the late fourteenth century, after which the spellings ‘flower’ and ‘flour’ were used to differentiate between the two.  So far we’ve looked at the words daisy, tulip, and carnation—our final...

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Word for Wednesday: Health

The word ‘health’ is a derivative of the old English word ‘hælþ’ and is German in origin. Health refers to the condition of someone’s body or mind; it is used to identify if we are in state of disease and pain (bad health) or free from disease and pain (good health). Traditionally, health was seemingly a game of luck, as successful medical remedies were sparse. However, medicine and research into health has luckily advanced; today’s society is obsessed with maintaining health and following a life style that could prevent disease. Diet, exercise and vitamin pills are part of a daily health routine to many individuals in the western world. But unfortunately, despite medical advances and healt...

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