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Today we're going to talk about the word board

in all its different meanings,

including the difference between board games,

table games, and tabletop games.

And then we'll talk about when to use commas with

participleal phrases like making me laugh and making me cry.

Have you ever wondered why we used the expression above board to mean totally honest or why we tell someone to

get on board when we want them to agree with us. Well long story short it's because the simple

word board B-O-A-R-D, has developed a bunch of different meanings over time.

And now we're going to explore all those meanings starting way back in the first century

a-d when old English was spoken across Britain.

Back in those days, Bored had a simpler spelling, B o rd, or sometimes b u r-R-D.

Its earliest meaning was a plank of wood, but it quickly came to mean a table, specifically

a table used for meals.

Soon the meaning of board got more specific, not just a table, but a table

already set with food and drink. And by the 1300s, board came to mean the actual food itself and soon after that it also

came to mean the meals that would be provided to you in a place of lodging like an inn.

That gave birth to the expression we still use today, room and board, meaning a place to sleep and food to eat. By the 1200s, board was

being used to mean not just a table, but furniture that was kind of In the

board was being used to mean not just a table, but furniture that was kind of like a table.

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