what do Nazis and the world’s favorite ballpark food have in common?

(Note: once again, I’ve put forth a post with quite a few links to Wikipedia to back up my claims. If you can afford to do so, donating to Wikipedia would be a tremendous thing to do.) The Latin word for fire, ignus, has been derived over the ages into the name Ignatius, meaning bornContinue reading “what do Nazis and the world’s favorite ballpark food have in common?”

a bundle, an oppressive ideology, a slur, and some delicious tex-mex

Long ago, the Proto-Italic language that predated Latin had a word to describe a bundle of something: “faskis”, which itself stems from the Proto-Indo-European “bhasko”. This term later appears in Latin as “fasces” and refers to a bundle of wooden rods with a protruding blade. The fasces was carried as a symbol of legal authorityContinue reading “a bundle, an oppressive ideology, a slur, and some delicious tex-mex”