I think the word lightning is weird. Its not, "lighting" which is SIMILAR but not the same, nor is it, "Lightening" which means to make lighter, or a drop in the level of the uterus during the last weeks of pregnancy as the young lad or lass begins to make its escape. The first N is the MVP in the word lightning. It takes an overused set of letters and creates a new word that is so easy to say it practically feels good to say it. It has sort of a European look to it. If you disassemble the word lightning, you will find yourself in quite a conundrum. First you have you have "lightn" and then "ing". Obviously, there is more to it than that, so we will keep seperating letters until it makes sense. Lig-h-tn-ing Now that we have the ingredients, we can begin to put the recipie of success together. Lig is Swahili slang for Liger, which as we all know happens when a male lion and tigress gets struck by lightning at the same time and thus Liger is born. H stands for Heat, which explains why lightening is so hot.
tn stands for Tennessee which is where all lightning is manufactured by the TVA.
ING comes from the Dutch scientist Ingenhousz.
You might ask, "Why Ingenhousz? Didn't he mainly study the process of photosynthesis?"
Yes, this is true. However,
Seeing as the neoclassicist French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres had already claimed the ING on the word photosynthesizing, ironic considering he was opposed to the light of Romanticism, Ingenhousz was later, after his death in 1799, given an honorary ING at the end of the word lightning for his hard work in the research of the general realm of light.
And you know,
I'm honestly surprised that most people I talk to don't know this.
2 comments:
I was left speechless by your intriguing piece, as if struck by lightning:)
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