Although I am was not an English major and quite frankly I am usually at a loss for words especially when writing, I have always been fascinated by interesting words an their origins. For instance brouhaha definitely doesn’t seem to fit in with the English language but there it is. Last night I ran across an origin for a word I had never thought twice about. The word teamsters I had always assumed was just some reference to them being a union. When historically teamsters comes from the term teaming in the 19th centure(possibly earlier, but I am not sure) which was defined roughly as “driving a cart for hire.”
It’s definitely been interesting reading some older books, in this case Bram Stoker’s Dracula, that have been annotated and end up teaching you something new.
