08 April 2026

Zweeeeëg explained


If I'm going to blog words tonight (in order to avoid you-know-what/you-know-who), we might as well look at this wonderful word meaning "dizygotic."  This discussion thread at the etymology subReddit has a lot of interesting and relevant content, including how in Danish one word can mean either dizygotic or double-edged.  Followed by a allusion to the two very different meanings of "unionized" (union-ized vs un-ionized) and the two meanings of logistics (vs. logistic).

Words are always fun.

2 comments:

  1. There's a small town in the north Florida panhandle called "Two Egg." There's a sign that indicates Faye Dunaway is from there.

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  2. What don't French people eat two eggs? Because one egg is un oeuf

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