WHERE DO THESE WORDS COME FROM ?

Some words in English have interesting stories. They come from languages or times that we never think about.
Here are the stories of some English words. Did you know that taxi comes from taxa?
Taxa means ‘tax’ in Latin. Taxi is short for the original word taximeter cab.
It means a car with a driver that you pay to take you to a place.

Every day people around the world send millions of emails to friends, family members and co-workers.
But where does the word email come from? Well, mail comes from the old French word male.
It means ‘a travelling wallet or bag’. Mail means ‘the letters and packages that you send to people’.
We use computers to send email messages, so our messages are not in paper; they are electronic.
Now, e is short for electronic. That is why we call these electronic letters email.

The word television has two parts: tele and vision. The first part, tele, is a Greek word. It means ‘far’.
The second part, vision, comes from the Latin word visionem. It means ‘seeing’.
A television shows pictures that people send us from miles away. That is why we have the word television.