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Originally Posted by YGG-
BTW do you know the word "muscle" comes from "mouse" (or "rat")? In Latin "mus" means "mouse" & "musculus" means "little mouse" [the scientific name of the rat is "mus musculus domesticus"] : when you move your arms, for example, you biceps moves as if there was a mouse under your skin ; and the scientific words took on "myo" = "mouse" for "muscle" like in "myopathy"... as the "myo" in Batrachomyomachia. (nevermind)
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...and thus is the source of the word mayo or mayonnaise. I mean, that's where the stuff comes from, right?