<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Folk etymologies are often fun. Sometimes they’re just annoying, as in how many people believe ‘history’ comes from ‘his story.’ I knew this was wrong because I’d been exposed to Herodotus’ famous book. Anyhow, in case you don’t know, ‘history’ has a much more convoluted history:</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/history#etymonline_v_12040">https://www.etymonline.com/word/history#etymonline_v_12040</a> </span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;">Regards,</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div><div><br></div>On Mar 12, 2020, at 7:14 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Ah well, you caught me. Just having a little fun. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:03 AM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div dir="ltr">On Mar 12, 2020, at 6:19 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Sometimes when I am reading my mind just speeds by a word because I know what it means and why stop? That means that sometimes I miss the origin of the word itself, which is sometimes quite clear.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Pandemic is what we have now, they say - from pandemonium = all demons everywhere.</div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>It’s better to verify this, especially since there’s a related word, ‘epidemic.’ Anyhow, the word doesn’t derive from ‘pandemonium’:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/pandemic" target="_blank">https://www.etymonline.com/word/pandemic</a></div><div><br></div><div>So, it’s much more closely related to ‘democracy’ or ‘demography.’</div><div><br></div><div>In fact, the ‘-demonium’ part of the second word derives via Latin from a different Greek word:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/pandemonium#etymonline_v_3062" target="_blank">https://www.etymonline.com/word/pandemonium#etymonline_v_3062</a><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="line-height:normal"><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px">Dan</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></body></html>