Dontcha just love the origin of words? Here are a couple I came across today.
DAISY comes from the saying the day's eye. Like most flowers the daisy closes up at night and then opens up in the morning when the sun comes out. Our forebears thought that when it opened up it looked like an eye, an eye that signalled the start of a new day. That's how we get the day's eye/daisy! The DANDELION gets its name from the French dent de lion which means lion's teeth. Over the years this got changed to dandy lion then to dandelion. Flowertastic or wot! So much more interesting than the boring Latin names.
By the way, a dandelion is not a weed. A weed is just a flower in the wrong place so in a cabbage patch a rose would be a weed! It's just how you look at tings innit!!
By the way, a dandelion is not a weed. A weed is just a flower in the wrong place so in a cabbage patch a rose would be a weed! It's just how you look at tings innit!!
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