578: Leeward and Lukewarm Jul 8, 2016

Most words in English and many other languages that belong to scientific jargon stem from Latin or Greek. For centuries, Latin and Greek were the lingua franca of European academia, and even today, most words that are created for scientific use are from those two languages. The words 'leeward' and 'lukewarm' are both special since they both come from Germanic origins, but had been used so frequently that they were appropriated into scholarly vernacular.