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If people are interested in etymology, I highly recommend the youtube channel Alliterative which goes over etymological connections and teaches history through

If people are interested in etymology, I highly recommend the youtube channel Alliterative which goes over etymological connections and teaches history through language. It's a fascinating channel and very unique style of videos. Here's one of my favourites, on colors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaDc5J2LD08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaDc5J2LD08

alberto_ol 5y ago
another obvious link if you are interested in etymology is https://www.etymonline.com/ https://www.etymonline.com/
- jonplackett 5y ago
  I love etymonline
puzzlingcaptcha 5y ago
I can't say I liked it. Looks like a loosely-associated bag of trivia, that can trace the words only as far as latin or proto-germanic and then resorts to wild guesses. It skips over associations 'downstream' too, e.g. "Greek word leukos giving us leukemia" - which is a neoplasm of leukocytes (white blood cells) which take their name from a white layer following centrifugation of a blood sample. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_coat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_coat
- scrollaway 5y ago
  It does skip some stuff but I think if it didn't, the video would be several days long, not "just" 50 minutes :) It's definitely a unique style; I think if you don't like it within the first 5-10 mins you won't like the channel at all.
- personlurking 5y ago
  > I can't say I liked it. Looks like a loosely-associated bag of trivia As a fan of etymology, I'd have to agree. It went so quickly between facts that I didn't recall the previous facts and barely had time to pay attention to the current facts, before it moved on. I'm also not a fan of the layout. One much shorter video focusing on one color would've been a lot better for me, then rinse and repeat. As for the layout, I would have it show the presenter talking while in the top corner the images are shown. Something less visually distracting. My feeling is that etymology-focused content is hard to produce. I've seen several channels or podcasts and they all fall short in a few areas.

alberto_ol 5y ago

another obvious link if you are interested in etymology is https://www.etymonline.com/ https://www.etymonline.com/

jonplackett 5y ago
I love etymonline

puzzlingcaptcha 5y ago

I can't say I liked it. Looks like a loosely-associated bag of trivia, that can trace the words only as far as latin or proto-germanic and then resorts to wild guesses. It skips over associations 'downstream' too, e.g. "Greek word leukos giving us leukemia" - which is a neoplasm of leukocytes (white blood cells) which take their name from a white layer following centrifugation of a blood sample. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_coat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_coat

scrollaway 5y ago
It does skip some stuff but I think if it didn't, the video would be several days long, not "just" 50 minutes :) It's definitely a unique style; I think if you don't like it within the first 5-10 mins you won't like the channel at all.
personlurking 5y ago
> I can't say I liked it. Looks like a loosely-associated bag of trivia As a fan of etymology, I'd have to agree. It went so quickly between facts that I didn't recall the previous facts and barely had time to pay attention to the current facts, before it moved on. I'm also not a fan of the layout. One much shorter video focusing on one color would've been a lot better for me, then rinse and repeat. As for the layout, I would have it show the presenter talking while in the top corner the images are shown. Something less visually distracting. My feeling is that etymology-focused content is hard to produce. I've seen several channels or podcasts and they all fall short in a few areas.