Hello everybody,
While looking into the difference between ‘convoy’ and ‘convey’ I’ve come across an interesting youtube video based on an old videogame.
I find it really amazing when I come across these things, especially because of all the new things I can learn while surfing the net.
Does it also happen to you? What’s the most surprising, weird or bizarre fact that you’ve found while using the Internet?
By the way… ‘convoy’ and ‘convey’ DO share the same etymology:
«The two words convey (a verb) and convoy (which may be a verb or a noun) not only look similar but also share an etymology, although their meanings have diverged slightly. Academics – and all careful writers – should be careful to distinguish them.»
«Etymological note: both convey and convoy are derived from the Latin via, ‘road, way’ (which becomes voie in modern French), prefixed by con, a form of cum, ‘with’. In Northern French, this took the form cunveier; in central French, it was convoier.»
From
http://hull-awe.org.uk/index.php/Etymology
Thanks for your interesting questions!
Englishaholics! 