Re: Shall We All Leave At Once?

On 25 May, 21:25, marc_CH <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:
The planets are all named after Gods.

There's a god named 'Earth', is there? Wow. What this the god of? Dirt?

Yes. Ge or Gaia, aka. Mother Earth derived from the Phoenician Goddess
of nature, Beruth.

And how do any of these names become the word 'Earth'?

Ah, easy. You see, Beruth contains four of the same letters as Earth,
and to Aggy looking at it and not bothering to do his research,
"Beruth" (pronounced with an "uth" sound) looks as though it sounds a
bit like "Earth". From there Aggy's simple-minded take on philology
does the rest - if two words look and sound (to him) vaguely similar
(give or take half their letters and the odd syllable), they must be
related. What was that crap he spouted some time ago about a Japanese
ambassador whose name looked to him like "*** you", even when it was
patiently explained to him that the pronunciation was entirely
different?

Phil
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