all words have an origin somewhere...
May. 15th, 2005 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearsometimes apocryphal ("for unlawful carnal knowledge", for example), sometimes documented. An interesting documented one i read about today: gerrymander. From today's Post Sunday Outlook:
[...]the early-19th-century Massachusetts politician Elbridge Gerry redrew a state Senate seat to his party's advantage in a shape that looked like a salamander
go fig.
i wonder if it was submitted to reader's digest before it became popular? or sniglets? ;-)
[...]the early-19th-century Massachusetts politician Elbridge Gerry redrew a state Senate seat to his party's advantage in a shape that looked like a salamander
go fig.
i wonder if it was submitted to reader's digest before it became popular? or sniglets? ;-)
