Wordorigins.org Newsletter
  • Home
  • About
Sign in Subscribe
Newsletter

Halloween

  • Dave Wilton

Dave Wilton

24 Oct 2023 • 4 min read
Halloween
A Halloween jack o’ lantern

This post is for paying subscribers only

Subscribe now

Already have an account? Sign in

Picketers in front of an Oxnard, California supermarket carrying signs that read Boycott in English and Boicot in Spanish
Paid-members only

boycott (paid)

06 Mar 2026 3 min read
Image of large tropical cyclone taken from earth orbit

hurricane

6 March 2026 Hurricane comes to us from the Taino language of the Caribbean via Spanish. The Taino word is hurákan. It makes its first English language appearance in Richard Eden’s 1555 translation of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés’s 1535 summary of La historia general de las
06 Mar 2026 2 min read
Stylized image of a 1940s newspaper newsroom with the words “Wordorigins.org: Words in the News”
Paid-members only

regime change

05 Mar 2026 2 min read
Wordorigins.org Newsletter © 2026
  • Sign up
Powered by Ghost