I’m sitting here with my amazingly intelligent and articulate cat…Dexter. He wanted to know where the term carat/karat originated. It just so happens that this little nugget of information was deposited into my lap during C.S.I. tonight, so I told him that carat/karat can have its origins traced to the fruit of the carob tree that was once used as a unit of measurement.
Then Dexter suggested that I use this little exchange as a way to start a thread where you post the origin of a word that someone on the thread wants to know, and in return for your contribution toward abating to the portion of ignorance that can be abated by knowing the origins of words…whatever that might be…you get to type in run-on sentences and post a request for the origin of a word that you have always wondered about, or just randomly think of as you read…these…words.
So…my contribution is carat/karat, and the word/phrase that I’m interested in is:
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