Are sharks named after people? | OCEAN WORDS
About this episode
Rob and Jess explore the origins of ocean-related words and answer various questions about marine life.
Rob and Jess are taking the deepest of dives into the origins of words from the ocean. 馃悷 Are many fish 'fish' or 'fishes'? 馃 Why is there a mystery around sharks? 馃悹 What is a sarcastic fringehead? These questions answered, and many more, in this subaquatic special of Words Unravelled. 馃彺鬆仹鬆仮鬆伋鬆仯鬆伌鬆伩 ROB EDINBURGH TICKETS: https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/robwords-live 馃憰 OUR MERCH 馃憵 US SHOP: https://wordsunravelledshop.myspreadshop.com/ EU/UK SHOP: https://wordsunravelledshop.myspreadshop.net/ 馃憖 WATCH THIS EPISODE: https://youtu.be/-54FiJ0PsXo
People in this episode
Hosts: RobWords, Jess Zafarris
Topics covered
- ocean words
- sharks
- marine life
- word origins
- language
Keywords
- sharks
- ocean
- marine vocabulary
- fish
- language
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Words Unravelled
Books & works: OCEAN WORDS, Words Unravelled Shop, YouTube
Places: Edinburgh, US, EU/UK
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