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.

2. When people see you lying down, with
your eyes closed they still ask:- Are you
sleeping?

3. No! I'm training to die!

4. Imagine when you take an electronic
equipment to a technician to get it
fixed and he still asks you:- Need it to
be fixed?

5. No, it got bored of staying
home alone so I brought It
over for a ride.

6. When It's raining and someone
notices you going out, they ask: -
Are you going out in this rain?

7. No, in the next one.

8. When you wake up, then
comes an idiot asking you: -
You Awake?

9. No. I'm sleep walking!

10. Your friend calls your home
phone:- Where are you?

11. At the bus stop!

12. They see you wet coming
from the bathroom:- Did
you just have a bath?

13. No, I fell in the
toilet bowl!

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.