A Certain Vintage

Are you into vintage clothes, or perhaps accessories? Maybe, if you can afford it, you have a vintage-car collection. The meaning of the word vintage is fairly straightforward. It basically means old, or oldfashioned, but also stylish and of good quality. It’s also an interesting, and straightforward, word in an etymological sense.

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One for the Road

After looking at the differences between the English words for animals and the meat we get from them, I was curious about the words we use for alcoholic drinks, and whether they display a similar Germanic/Latin divide. Continue reading