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• “Mistel” is an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning dung, and “tan” meant twig. “Misteltan” or “the little dung twig” was so named because Answer: Dell. birds eat the berries off the twigs and the seeds A VERY LARGE NUMBER are deposited in their dung. Today the word •has Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 turned into mistletoe. he was asked to come up with a name for a • “Wych” is the Anglo-Saxon word meaning “to very large number: the numeral one, followed bend” resultingzeros. in witch haby a hundred He hazel: asked the his bending two young zel. nephews what name they would suggest. • •“Gar” is old English for spear, and “leac” is the Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name original way of spelling leek. “Garleac” is now out of the funnies. A cartoon strip character garlic, leek shaped likepopular. a spear. Milton chose namedaBarney was very Barney’s last name for the number.meant man• The Chinese word “jen-shen” referring to the the for root.theItbig re•plant, Kasner announced theshape new of name sulted in in thehis word number nextginseng. book, altering the spelling. • Sixty years Larry Pagemistress and Sergey Brin • Mentha waslater, the mythical of Pluto, developed a new internet engine. Other who ruled Hades. Pluto's search wife was so jealous search engines searched each and that she transformed Mentha intowebpage a lowly plant ranked them according to how many times a that would forever afterwards be trampled upon specific term appeared on them, but Page and by humans. Pluto felt sorry for Mentha, and Brin designed search enginewas to search for decreed that thetheir more the plant trampled, the specific term and then find out how many the sweeter it would smell. Today, Mentha is links there were that led back to that page, called whichmint. resulted in a better search engine. • •Chamomile camethey from needed the Greek They decided a words name “chathat mai” meaning “on the ground,” and reflected how many websites the “melon” search meaning “apple.” engine was searching. They took the name of Edward Kasner’s very means large number, • The Spanish word “zarza” bramble,only and they misspelled so it ended up being “parilla” means ita slightly, vine. “Zarzaparilla” came spelled exactly the same way the cartoon into English as sarsaparilla. character Barney spelled his last name. What’s • Strawberry comes atfrom theof word it called? (Answer bottom page) “streaw” which means strew, because the plant strews COMPUTER runners across the ground.FACTS In 1981 Bill Gates said, “640 kb of memory • •Cranberries were first called “cranebarries” beought to be enough for anybody.” cause the stamens of the flowers look like the •beak Moore’s statesLikewise, that computer performance of aLaw crane. geraniums were doubles every 18 to 24 months, and evermeansince named from the Greek word “geranos” 1971, this has been true. ing crane, because the seed pods are pointed •like HP,the Google, bill of Microsoft, a crane. and Apple were all started in garages. • Nettles were so named because they were origAnswer: Google, from nets. googol. inally used to weave
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