Actual number is close to 100,000 men lost so far. That's a fact.

Isn’t chocolate indigenous in origin?

Do other countries initially file for patents in the USA? Wondering why there’s such a huge country discrepancy (not the individual/company ratio specifically)

Ah, thank you. Either way not Spanish!

As someone who lives in the USA, I’d guess it’s because of multiple factors:

(1) USA is one of the most diverse places in the world. So when you have so many people with diverse cultural, linguistic, and religious backgrounds, this naturally leads to tension.

(2) Equality and freedom are a strong part of the American identity, so people vigorously fight and protest for whatever their version of that is… and our strong freedom of speech laws and non-tyrannical government let’s them do that.

(3) Compared to other ways people can be diverse, race is usually pretty easy to identify.

(4) Race-related topics are frequently shoved in our faces by the media and company/school diversity initiatives.

I didn’t know! That’s interesting, thanks!

Thought platinum didn't sound Spanish. But I failed Spanish class. No habar Espanol.

You know what’s most fascinating is the word crocodile

From Greek kroke + drilos To Latin crocodilus And then english went crocodile But Spanish went cocodrilo

In this case it actually derives from Spanish. The Spanish first found the metal and called it "platina" in the 18th century. In the early 19th century they gave the metal its now latin sounding name.

You could also go back further in history and say that platina is a deriviation of the french word "plate".

But that’s the same word though right? I mean the word is said the same in both languages it’s just the spelling that changes. Contrast that for example with chocolate which is spelt the same but has a considerable difference in pronunciation.

It was pretty clear by the “um” suffix that platinum was Latin.

Which also derives from the latin "canno".

But then wouldn't like 90% of English just come from Proto-Indo-European? Since that's where most of French, Latin, Greek, Spanish, Germanic, Celtic... comes from?

There's more flotillas than potatoes?

Weird metric, then.

By your standards no word is of any origin. There is always a prior language from where a words comes. So by this, English doesn’t have words of French origin, because most of them come from Latin (some from Germanic , or Gaulish) which come from Italic, which come from Ítalo-Celtic, which come from Indo-European which come from whatever prior language etc. the same for Arabic words, or any other language’s words, which come from previous or adjacent languages from where they took them. So, “beauty”, according to your reasoning, is not a word of French origin (beauté) but of pre-pre-pre Indo European origin, isn’t it? And French didn’t have anything to do with it.

Those words come from Spanish as it is the language that took them and transformed them and made them evolve with its own idiosyncrasy, its own sounds and its own ways, and from which English took them. As examples of the words in the post, Potato comes from Spanish “patata” (a mixture of two words, one from Quechua “papa” and other from Taino “batata”), Adobe is from Arab Al-tub which come from Egyptian “dbt”. And this from where? Chocolate from Nahuatl “Xocoalt”. Similar, but not the same, and if English had taken them directly from those languages they would be very different as they are now in English. And at the same time, those words undoubtedly come from other languages prior to them or in contact with them. And so on.

So, the words in the post come from Spanish, that’s how it works in philological terms.

And by the way: Platinum comes directly from Spanish “Platino”, not the other way around. Romans didn’t know the metal as it was identified and described in 1735, and given the name for its similarity to Silver…”plata” in Spanish (Latin: “argentum”). Platinum is a latinization of Platino, not the opposite

And Canyon is veeeeery used in Spain. Its geography is full of “cañones” (“cañón” is phonetically pronounced “canyon”). Not as big as the Grand Canyon, that’s why the Spaniard that saw it for the first time as a European called it Gran Cañón, as he had seen many (smaller) in his homeland
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%C3%B1%C3%B3n_de_A%C3%B1isclo

https://www.xn--caondelriolobos-zqb.com/

Sure thing, water proof or fire proof?

Misinfo for everyone! 🥳

Thank you, I’ve actually been curious of it’s origin too (love language history!), and for some reason assumed it was French/Latin.

Is it Spanish? Or is it Latin?

Cargo Space? No, cargo ground.

Alligator should be on that list.

Thanks, confirms my initial feeling that this has a lot of wrong info

I'd like to see one of these for English words with Hindi origins.

ABV QED

I am looking for a list with the ticker symbols of all 500 companies of the S&P500. Does anyone have any idea how I can quickly find or create such a list without entering each company by hand?