Interesting Etymologies 2

The word "daisy" comes from the Old English, meaning “day’s eye”, because of the way the flower opens and closes with the sunrise and sunset.

Salamander’esque 1812 political cartoon was made in reaction to the newly drawn state senate election district of South Essex created by the Massachusetts legislature to favour the Democratic-Republican Party.

Etymology is the study of the origin and history of words and their meanings. In a previous post we presented a range of words with interesting ba…