And here is a word we all like> KETCHUP! Feel free to send words with interesting origins that you may like!

<a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/ketchup#etymonline_v_1825" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(131, 0, 29);">ketchup (n.)</a>

1711, said to be from Malay (Austronesian) <em>kichap</em>, but probably not original to Malay. It might have come from Chinese <em>koechiap</em> "brine of fish," which, if authentic, perhaps is from the Chinese community in northern Vietnam [Terrien de Lacouperie, in "Babylonian and Oriental Record," 1889, 1890]. <em>Catsup</em> (earlier <em>catchup</em>, 1680s) is a failed attempt at Englishing, still in use in U.S., influenced by <em>cat</em> and <em>sup</em>. 

Originally a fish sauce made from various plant juices, the word came to be used in English for a wide variety of spiced gravies and sauces; "Apicius Redivivus; or, the Cook's Oracle," by William Kitchiner, London, 1817, devotes 7 pages to recipes for different types of catsup (his book has 1 spelling of <em>ketchup</em>, 72 of <em>catsup</em>), including walnut, mushroom, oyster, cockle and mussel, <em>tomata</em>, white (vinegar and anchovies figure in it), cucumber, and pudding catsup. Chambers's Encyclopaedia (1870) lists mushroom, walnut, and tomato ketchup as "the three most esteemed kinds." Tomato ketchup emerged c. 1800 in U.S. and predominated from early 20c.

Thank you Drasvi!

Thank you Beshoy, I already had the link saved, I looove this page!!!

Thank you Beshoy. Apparently, this word comes from both, Latin and Greek!

Thank you Drasvi. Interestingly, it directed me to a MANGA link. :)

You could also say "It was raining for 2 hours" We use the past simple continuous to refer to an action that happened in the past but has no connection with the present. It's a moment that you cannot go back to. And the continuous form (ING) is often used to describe conditions that existed in the past for a period of time. In this case "for 2 hours".

And today's word for those interested in etymology...> <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/" target="_blank">https://www.etymonline.com/</a>

1520s, "period of 40 days in which a widow has the right to remain in her dead husband's house." Earlier <em style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">quarentyne</em> (15c.), "desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days," from Latin <em style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">quadraginta</em>"forty," related to <em style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">quattuor</em> "four" (from PIE root *kwetwer- "four"). 

Sense of "period a ship suspected of carrying disease is kept in isolation" is 1660s, from Italian <em style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">quarantina giorni</em>, literally "space of forty days," from <em style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">quaranta</em> "forty," from Latin <em style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">quadraginta</em>. So called from the Venetian custom of keeping ships from plague-stricken countries waiting off its port for 40 days (first enforced 1377) to assure that no latent cases were aboard. The extended sense of "any period of forced isolation" is from 1670s.

Thank you Samaneh!