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Why are they called the New York “Knicks”?
When it comes to the etymology of the name “Knicks,” Washington Irving is the MVP. But the real MVP? The Dutch. Read more.
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How “Ebola” got its name
To avoid stigmatizing the village at the center of the 1976 outbreak, researchers named the disease after a river in the central African region whose name French colonists modified from native Ngbandi. Read more.
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What is the “hanta-” in “hantavirus”?
“Hantavirus” is named after a Korean river where the virus was first isolated in the late 1970s. Read more.
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“Strait” vs. “straight”: straight talk on strait differences
Etymologically, ‘strait’ is “strict” and ‘straight’ is “stretched.” Read more.
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Phases of the word “moon”
Artemis II has me waxing philosophical, poetical, and, of course, etymological. Read more.