Etymology that sticks:
quarantine comes from 40 days.
Once a word has a route, not just a definition, it becomes easier to remember.
I keep seeing the same pattern: when the word has a path, it sticks better than a flat list.
free tool I built: https://t.co/wrmqDw3je4
Etymology that sticks:\nquarantine comes from the Italian "quaranta giorni" (forty days).\n\nIn Venice, ships had to wait 40 days before docking during plague outbreaks. The word kept the name.\n\nI built a free tool that maps word histories like this: https://t.co/U39osk7wBQ
Etymology that sticks:
salary comes from salt - Roman soldiers were partly paid in it.
I built a free tool that maps trails like this:
https://t.co/ZjmFw13ijf
I kept bouncing between a dictionary, Translate, and Anki, so I built WordHub.
Highlight any word on a page -> definition + IPA + etymology, an AI explanation for that sentence, and one click to save it for spaced review.
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https://t.co/aLH9lQd48V