Today starts our Japanese week: Tycoon originally referred to a Japanese lord and was first used in English in the 1850s.Continue reading Tycoon
EVS Translation Blog / Category: – P-Z
11 Jun /13
Plimsoll/Plimsoll Line
Health and safety campaigners often make as many enemies as admirers, and Samuel Plimsoll had to fight a bitter battle to make nineteenth century shipbuilders toe the line.Continue reading Plimsoll/Plimsoll Line
10 Jun /13
Ponzi Scheme
Hollywood comedy “The Producers” tells the story of Max and Leo, who take hundreds of thousands of dollars from investors to stage a Broadway musical, then choose the worst script, the worst director and the worst cast they can find so the show will flop and they can keep the money.Continue reading Ponzi Scheme
7 Jun /13
Platypus
Platypus comes from the Greek platupous, meaning flat-footed.Continue reading Platypus
30 May /13
Taboo
And now Captain Cook Part 3: Taboo arrived in the English language when James Cook visited Tonga.Continue reading Taboo
