Mercury- the element.? what family does it belong to? origin of the name? cost? discovered by? when? any interesting facts??? need info now for report!!! thanx!!!
Yet even in its spoken form, English is weird. Itâs weird in ways that are easy to miss, especially since Anglophones in the United States and Britain are not exactly rabid to learn other languages. But our monolingual tendency leaves us like the proverbial fish not knowing that it is wet.
Weird derives from the Old English noun wyrd, essentially meaning fate.. By the 8th century, the plural wyrde had begun to appear in texts as a gloss for Parcae, the Latin name for the Fatesâthree goddesses who spun, measured, and cut the thread of life.