Our word budget comes from a French word, bougette, which literally means leather bag.
And from the 16th to the 19th century, there was an expression in English to open one’s budget, which meant to speak one’s mind.
I thought that was so cool.
That is cool.
And there’s another interesting thing here.
Our word purse comes from the word bourse, B-O-U-R-S-E, which is the word the French still use for their stock market.
Love it.
Those green plastic strips tucked between cuts of meat in supermarket display cases? They’re parsley runners, the result of recommendations from a professional color consultant hired by a grocery chain in the 1950s. Under bright store lights, the...
Daniel from Gardnerville, Nevada, remembers his aunt had a habit of responding to anyone who left the word so hanging there in mid-conversation with, Sew a button on your underwear. It’s is one of a whole family of playful rejoinders, including Sew...
