I’ve often wondered how they come up with names for things. Take yarn for example. What the heck is that?? Did it become a derivative of yawn, which is what comes to mind for me whenever I see someone knitting??

How about Tabasco? Does that word have a place at all, outside of the sauce you add to certain foods?? Shouldn’t Nabisco manufacture the stuff, in an old 70’s disco??

Even more common names baffle me. How did settee evolve into sofa? Was is because somebody had one “so-fa” from the refrigerator, he felt compelled to make a bad pun about it, and it caught on??

At least sofa in that context gives a person something to work with. How did an elevated piece of flooring outside your home or condo become a “balcony”?? Probably because “suspended room with no walls or ceiling” would have abbreviated to something like “srwnworc”, confusing even the laziest version of Spell-Check.

Although, with some creative observation and study, that almost translates to “sunroom”.

Chow for now!!