{"id":4582,"date":"2013-06-30T10:25:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T17:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4582"},"modified":"2013-07-10T10:44:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T17:44:07","slug":"hashassins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/30\/hashassins\/","title":{"rendered":"Hashassins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/06\/24\/attention-word-nerds-13-mysteries-of-the-vernacular-solved\/\" target=\"_blank\">from TED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1 itemprop=\"headline\">Attention word nerds: 13 mysteries of the vernacular,\u00a0solved<\/h1>\n<p>Posted by:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/author\/kateted\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Torgovnick<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qOXuJqr1UhU\" height=\"270\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Before a \u2018clue\u2019 became a thing that excited a detective, the word referred to a ball of yarn. So how did this shift in meaning occur? Because in Greek mythology, Ariadne threw a ball of yarn\u00a0to Theseus before he entered the minotaur\u2019s labyrinth. Theseus unrolled the yarn behind him as he traveled into the deadly maze \u2014 then used it to find his way out.<\/p>\n<p>And you\u2019ll find lots more of it in the TED-Ed series\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/series\/mysteries-of-vernacular\" target=\"_blank\">Mysteries of the Vernacular<\/a>, from Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What the word\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/mysteries-of-vernacular-gorgeous-jessica-oreck-and-rachael-teel\" target=\"_blank\">gorgeous<\/a>\u00a0has to do with turtlenecks<\/li>\n<li>How the word\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/mysteries-of-vernacular-window-jessica-oreck-and-rachael-teel\" target=\"_blank\">window<\/a>\u00a0came from a clever metaphor<\/li>\n<li>The strange derivation of the\u00a0<a>tuxedo<\/a><\/li>\n<li>How Alfred Nobel invented\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/mysteries-of-vernacular-dynamite-jessica-oreck-and-rachael-teel\" target=\"_blank\">dynamite<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Why\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/mysteries-of-vernacular-window-jessica-oreck-and-rachael-teel\" target=\"_blank\">venom<\/a>\u00a0once meant \u2018something to be desired\u2019<\/li>\n<li>The riddle of the word\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/mysteries-of-vernacular-earwig-jessica-oreck-and-rachael-teel\" target=\"_blank\">earwig<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Why the word\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/mysteries-of-vernacular-dynamite-jessica-oreck-and-rachael-teel\" target=\"_blank\">inaugurate<\/a>\u00a0is for the birds<\/li>\n<li>How\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/mysteries-of-vernacular-noise-jessica-oreck\" target=\"_blank\">noise<\/a>, nausea and naval are all related<\/li>\n<li>The story of the word\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/mysteries-of-vernacular-pants-jessica-oreck\" target=\"_blank\">pants<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Why the origin of the word\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/mysteries-of-vernacular-miniature-jessica-oreck\" target=\"_blank\">miniature<\/a>\u00a0isn\u2019t so small<\/li>\n<li>What a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/mysteries-of-vernacular-hearse-jessica-oreck\" target=\"_blank\">hearse<\/a>\u00a0was before a vehicle for the dead<\/li>\n<li>The word\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/mysteries-of-vernacular-assassin-jessica-oreck\" target=\"_blank\">assassin<\/a>\u2019s roots in hash<\/li>\n<li>And, as previously mentioned, why you could once knit with a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/mysteries-of-vernacular-clue-jessica-oreck\" target=\"_blank\">clue<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/06\/24\/attention-word-nerds-13-mysteries-of-the-vernacular-solved\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full post at TED.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TED Attention word nerds: 13 mysteries of the vernacular,\u00a0solved Posted by:\u00a0Kate Torgovnick Before a \u2018clue\u2019 became a thing that excited a detective, the word referred to a ball of yarn. So how did this shift in meaning occur? Because in Greek mythology, Ariadne threw a ball of yarn\u00a0to Theseus before he entered the minotaur\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}