Some people have all the fun: 

 lily34 wrote: 
nailed it...

The Cap'n Crunch Crew:

And here I thought a hippocampus was where hippo’s go to college.  

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
When I was designing the t-shirt for the "Seahorse Magic Sauce", I wanted to use the proper Latin name as the name of the food company - it is "hippocampus" (from Greek).  I had to dig into it more and found out that the part of the human brain was named for its resemblance to a sea horse.

 Proclivities wrote:
Maybe not surprising:

 miamizsun wrote:

your big head is why.

 lily34 wrote:

 miamizsun wrote:

ok, but not because you said so.

 Proclivities wrote:

what about manbird and oldviolin?
bet you never thought about that did ya?

 Proclivities wrote:

i just saw this. very interesting!

Linguistic Siblings: 9 Pairs of Words With Surprisingly Shared Etymologies

An air fryer “oven” is essentially a convection oven.  Thanks, haresfur!

Took me 55 years to finally realize that Led Zepplin is the greatest band ever.  Strange that.

When making pound cakes, DO line the pans with waxed/parchment paper. Luckily it was only one of four, and it's mine.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Well, there you go then!

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
I learned the "duffel" spelling as well, though I do see the "le" spelling pretty often.  I didn't know it was named for a place; I assumed it was someone's last name, like "leotard", or maybe just a French term for "satchel" or something.

 maryte wrote: 
Mostly medieval or Elizabethan.