The document contains a collection of interesting facts and trivia about the origins of common words and terms. Some key points include:
- Many words are abbreviations of longer phrases, such as "moped" from "motorized pedaling" and "bus" from "omnibus".
- Terms like "news" and "queue" derive from their original meanings - news coming from the four directions and queue originating from waiting to see the Queen.
- Traditions like tipping and journaling have roots in ensuring good service and recording daily journeys.
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14. You are standing right in front of the
elevator on the ground floor and they
ask:- Going up?
15. No, no, I am waiting for my
apartment to come down and get me.
16. • AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from
'Agricultural Marketing'.
• FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two
Weeks).
• POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.
• MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.
• BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means
everybody.
• DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing
room' where people withdrew after Dinner. Later
the prefix 'with' was dropped..
17. • NEWS refers to information from Four
directionsN, E, W, and S.
• QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long
back a long row of people as waiting to see the
Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's
Quest..
• JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey
for a day' during each Day's business.
18. • TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In
olden days to get Prompt service from servants
in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box
on which was written 'To Insure Prompt
Service'. This gave rise to the custom of Tips.
• JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It
was invented during World War II (1939-1945).
It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle
(GP)'.GP was changed into JEEP later.
• The most common name in the world is
Mohammed..
19. • The name of all the continents end
with the same letter that they start
with Asia, America, Australia,
Europe
• The strongest muscle in the body is
the TONGUE.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word
that can be made using the letters
only on one row of the keyboard.