Do We Really Know These....

"To Know Is To Know That There Are Alot of Things That U Don't Know"

We all grow up with a lot of things that we often take for granted, the eternal question of "WHY" is rarely asked so there are a lot of things that we just superficially know. There should not be any arguement if I say that we all think we know what a Moped or a Geep or a Queue is..... but mates I recently realized that I don't.... My Grandfather used to tell me "Knowledge Is To Know Some Things About Everything & Everything About Some Things" Read on... u'll get to know a little more about words we just casually use.....

MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedalling'. Quite Logical, ain't it...

POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' abbreviated. Common Sense....but did we ever consider giving it a thought....

BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody. Not so obvious :)....

FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks). No Doubts.....

DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped. Thats some Reasoning....

NEWS refers to information from four directions N, E, W and S. This is rather common though.....

AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'...

JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's business.

QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as waiting to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest.

TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom of Tips.

JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'. GP began to be spelled as JEEP later.

How did u like it!?! Gave u some thoughts I believe

If u have any more of these tit bits of information, please do share in the Comments section... Have a Great Day 8)