This, my friends, this is true etymology. Explaining why something is named the way it is, finding patterns and principles of meaning, not just tracing a word’s form back through time (which, admittedly, is oftentimes a prerequisite for exploring the former).
why has ‘this looks like a renaissance painting’ become such a common phrase on the internet to describe momentous, dramatically lit images that are brimming with pathos when the word they mean to say is ‘baroque’
On this day, 29 November 1830, “Captain Swing” farm workers fighting for better pay and more jobs attacked a farmer and constable in Stour Provost, Dorset. Some were arrested and taken to Shaftesbury, but local Swing sympathisers released the prisoners. Before the night was over further rioting broke out in five other towns. Captain Swing was the fictional rebel leader in whose name workers’ demand letters were sent.
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