“What a quidnunc she is!” – gossip. Quidnunc is a compression of a Latin question, “Quid nunc?”, meaning “What now?” Curious to hear the latest gossip, an inquisitive person might ask, “What now?” Men and women, it has been shown, gossip equally. Hmm. If you’ve been following my blog, notice how “qu” in Latin became “wh” in English, as in what, when, why. If you say the sounds aloud, they sound similar. Jacob was amused by the Latin word, quotquot, pronounced like “squat” and meaning “however many”. Squat is an awfully funny word, too.
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