The stories behind the brand names of automobiles is sometimes surprising. The name of the Audi derives from a bilingual pun involving a German word, and Mazda honors the central deity of Zoroastrianism, with which the car company’s founder had a fascination. This is part of a complete episode.
After an international team of scientists and staffers spent six months at a research station in Antarctica, their accents changed ever so slightly, according to an acoustic analysis by German researchers. The slang terms they shared include dingle...
Is the booty as in shake your booty related to a pirate’s booty? The booty that means “derriere” is an alteration of botty, which is itself an alteration of bottom. The booty that means “loot” or “plunder”...
I suspect the fancy stuff about the heavenly meaning of Ahura-mazda was tacked on later. The founder was Matsuda, which would be pronounced Masda in rapid speech. He wanted to pick a less confusing spelling for Westerners. Mazda was already familiar as a brand of light bulbs.