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Titles: What’s in a name?
Everything has a name, doesn’t it? Who thought up all the names of things in the world? Aside from Adam who probably named trees, flowers, and animals. But who thinks up all the names of things we see each day? Like streets? Or colors? I would really love to meet the person who thought up Puce (per Wikipedia-Puce is the French word for flea. The color is said to be the color of the bloodstains remaining on linen or bedsheets, even after being laundered, from a flea’s droppings or after a flea has been crushed.) so maybe it was a