Loving this infographic showing the etymology of the spices, created by @etymology_nerd.
The award for Most Enlightening goes to the origin of vanilla, but my favourite is the etymology of basil coming from the Greek for royal plant.
Spice Etymology
Hi!
I'm Chris, a software developer from Haverhill, Massachusetts, specializing in linguistics, readability, and NLP.
I've been obsessed with the curios of the English language for as long as I can remember and this blog is my excuse to spend even more time on them.