Knowledge is Really Amusing

FORTNIGHT comes from ‘Fourteen Nights’ (Two Weeks). POP MUSIC is ‘Popular Music’ shortened. MOPED is the short term for ‘Motorized Pedaling’. BUS is the short term for ‘Omnibus’ that means everybody. DRAWING ROOM was actually a ‘withdrawing room’ where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix ‘with’ was dropped.. NEWS...