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Fun fact: in #Polish, all cardinal directions have the same names as times of day. East is "wschód" which means "rise" (as in sunrise, "wschód słońca"), west is "zachód" — "set" (as in sunset, "zachód słońca"). North is "północ", lit. "midnight", and south is "południe", lit. "midday".
Apparently, the #English etymology is not so clear. "West" and "east" seem to unrecognizably stem from the words for evening and dawn. "South" seem to be related to "sun", whereas "north" to "to the left of the rising sun".
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You know the whole fracas over whether GIF is pronounced with a hard or a soft G?
A female cat is a queen; an entire male is a tom. A neutered male, however, has been called a gib since at least the 14th Century. And despite the term’s great age, there’s *still* no consensus—you guessed it—on whether it’s pronounced with a hard or a soft G.
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The word, triumvirate, implies the existence of biumvirate or uniumvirate or maybe even just an umvirate.