📝 The Unspoken One

You may be familiar with an oft-repeated factoid about the word bear , referring to mammals of the family Ursidae. It typically goes something like this: Did you know that “bear” doesn’t derive from the creature’s original name? It was feared that speaking its true name would summon one, and over time the original name fell out of favor as people adopted “the brown one” or similar as a euphemism,…