Did you know that the word cartoon come from the first cartoon-like drawing of a car being tuned? Hence: car-tune! No. 9: Trey Burke 8 of 14. Okay, I made up that car-tune fact from the last slide ...

The origins of “okay”, or “OK”, were firmly established by the revered American etymologist Allen Walker Read, who devoted much of his long life – he died at 96 in 2002 – to uncovering ...