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Today we'll answer a listener question about why we drive on parkways and park on driveways.

You'll also learn about a flapping spacecraft that's being designed to explore Venus,

and why recalling a word on the tip of your tongue

ensures that you'll forget it next time.

What satisfy some, that word that starts to the sea.

Ah, what is it?

Curiosity!

Ah, there it is.

We got a listener question from Reddit user Kaurago,

who wants to know the answer to the age-old question, why? Reddit English eccentricity is a great demonstration of how language can hold on to relics of the past.

It turns out that the verb park in the sense of putting your car somewhere and the noun park

in the sense of a green space where you can play Frisbee and admonish people for feeding the ducks, both have the same origin.

In the mid-13th century, park referred to an enclosed hunting preserve.

Around the 1660s, enclosed lots like these were established in London not for hunting, but for public recreation,

which is when our modern sense of the noun park was born.

Eventually, this green meaning became so ingrained

that it became a verb. In the mid 1800s to Park meant to create a little patch

of parkland by planting trees or flowers. Cities would border roads with

parking or little strips of flowers or grass for decoration and temperature

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