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The word BUNNY comes from a Celtic word meaning a small bun which was used for the tail of a rabbit and eventually the rabbit itself

A WILD GOOSE CHASE never meant chasing a goose, but pursuing on horseback a rider just like a gaggle of geese run after their leader

FOUR is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the actual digit

The white part of your fingernail is called the LUNULA

BARBARIANS were foreigners to early Greeks and Romans either because they 'babbled' or had beards 'barba'

COLORADO gets is name from its like-named river from the Spanish for red river

London's SOHO comes from a rabbit-hunting cry; New York's from an acronym SOuth of HOuston Street

Because the Old English word 'wif' just meant 'woman', a FISHWIFE didn't have to be married

Some unknown Irish street thug called Houlihan is responsible for the word HOOLIGAN

William Shakespeare coined the expression SALAD DAYS for when a youth was green and fresh