549: ecuador Jun 9, 2016

Today marks a whole year and a half of Word Facts posts. For those who have been reading since the beginning or those who just started recently, 18 months may not be so long in the grand scheme of things, but I thank you for giving my hobby and my passion an outlet. Like how Word Facts is in the middle of its second year, the country, Ecuador is in the middle as well: of the earth that is. The name comes from the Spanish for 'equator'. Though the French version of the name is 'Equateur' which also means 'equator', the English language which is generally more fluid chose to adopt the word as it was.