Sunday, April 1, 2007

Day 17: Palm Sunday

It's intriguing how many words there are with the root "palm" in them.

Palmolive - dish washing soap
Palm reader - psychic
napalm - gas solidifier used in WWII/Viet Nam
palm - open hand
palm - triumph or victory
itchy palm - a gambler or briber

*check out www.dictionary.com's #7!
palm - the flat, expanded part of the horn or antler of a deer

And how do we say it in Dutch?
Dutch: handpalm
Redundant?

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