I love words.
Seriously. I love words. I'm a word nerd.
I love learning the etymologies of words. I find it really interesting to be able to trace the lineage of words from their historical origins right up to modern times. The truth is that words have often walked very strange paths to get to us today.
Today's word is awkward.
"Awk" means back-handed, backward, clumsy, or perverse. "-weard" (now -ward) is a suffix meaning in the direction of.
Awkward.
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