There’s a word in the zeitgeist that illustrates the point, in fact – one that has been threatening the laissez-faire ...

Whatever its earliest meaning might have been, carol was borrowed into English from French in the early Middle Ages and can probably be traced back to an ancient Latin or Greek word for a flute ...

Some word origins just make sense. Movies are called movies because they are moving images. Automobile comes from the French for “self” and “mobile,” because that’s what cars do.