This is the allusionist, in which I, Helen Salzman, leave a passive-aggressive note on languages

wonky-loo parked car.

Coming up in today's show, generational labels, who defined them, and how do they define

you?

Hmm.

Let's warm up with a little word history.

Here's the etymology of Chaos.

Shout out to my fellow Brits.

In the beginning, Chaos was a yarn.

In its root, proto-indio-European form, gun.

It's very hard to know how proto-indio-European was pronounced, it being the ancestor of languages

from Punjabi to Portuguese.

So from that ancient yarn, or gape, it evolved into the ancient Greek chaos, an abyss, or

chasm, which also comes from the same root.

That sense of vast gaping emptiness is what the word still meant when it landed in English

around the end of the 14th century.

Then in the Vulgate Bible version of the Book of Genesis, chaos described the void before

creation.

And it's from there that around 1600, the word seems to have assumed the additional sense

of absolute turmoil.

The chaos before God stepped in and spent seven days fixing it up on with the show.

I do believe generally that we're all unique, but we're not that special.

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