Every young reader has heard puss called Tabby, but all do not know that tabby cat was named after Atab, a famous street in the old city of Bagdad. On this street the merchants sold a beautiful watered silk called atabi. In modern days this silk has been styled taffeta. The wavy markings of the silk were thought to resemble pussy's coat of fur.
Jet derives its name from a river in Lycia—the Gagates—in the bed of which were found smooth black stones called gaet, of which jewelry was made.
A pamphlet is a book bound in paper. A long, long time ago a learned Greek lady wrote the history of the world in thirty-five little books, which, after her, were called Pamphylia.
Humbug is a bit of fun aimed at Hamburg, in Germany, which city was once rather famous for getting up sensations which turned out to be nothing very wonderful after all. Hamburg news was humbug.
Dollar is from the German thaler, named from Thal, in Bohemia, where were located the silver-works which made this coin.
Money traces its history to a remote period, when the coinage of the Romans was struck at the temple of the goddess Juno Monieta.
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