As a professionally trained linguist (or at least a graduate-school dropout), I feel it is my duty to let people know where words come from. Also, I was going to create a really awesome family crest for Rich this afternoon, since it was a quiet Friday, but then I got a project to work on that was not difficult but very tedious. This means I do not have a coat of arms to put on the blog right now (watch for it on future posts), but as I was working, I thought about the word "tedious." It may appear to be a Latin word borrowed via French, and that's what they will tell you online, but I have discovered the truth: it is an acronym.
Check it out:
TDS = Totally Dumb $hi+.
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