The porcupine is certainly not a source of pork, but the word pork and the porc- in the word porcupine both come ultimately from Latin porcus, âpig, hog.â Porcupine was modified from a compound word in Romance languages such as medieval French porc espin, literally, âspiny pig.â (The espin part comes from Latin spina, âthorn, spine.â)
Men are two years older than women in the average relationship, Facebook says. Apparently, the cougar phenomenon is just a blip. Because according to Facebook, when it comes to coupling up, men average about two years older than their female partners internationally.
Currently the average age at marriage in the US is 26.8 years for men, and 25.1 years for women. It is interesting that though this represents an increased age for men, it is not significantly higher than the rate 100 years ago. Actually age rates at marriage for men declined from 1910 through 1960.he largest jump in a decade was womenâs average age at marriage in 1980 and 1990. In ten years the age rate jumped from 22 years to 23.9. In fact in the last 20 years, both men and women show a considerable increase in age at marriage.