Happy Wednesday. In this week’s Word for Wednesday we’ll be taking a look at the word Hippopotamus in the first of a series of animal-inspired posts in which we’ll discover just how imaginative (or not!) the wordsmiths of old really were! Come to think of it, imagine a time when everything had yet to be named… As interesting and appropriate as it now seems, the word Hippopotamus comes from two Greek words: ‘hippos’ meaning ‘horse’ and ‘potamos’ meaning ‘river’. Somehow, ‘horse of the river’ seems too majestic a title for the rather terrifying pig-like creature and interestingly, the hippo’s closest ...
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