Mignon Fogarty on Nostr: Check out these quirky night lights! The words "night" and "light" are so old the ...
Check out these quirky night lights!
The words "night" and "light" are so old the Oxford English Dictionary just lists "Old English" as the date of first use.
"Night light" goes back to 1648 in English, but the first use seems to be in a Dutch book, and from that, and I learned two fun things about Dutch:
1. "Groot" means "large."
2. "Woordenboek" means "dictionary" (word book).
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