> Some scholars in those dark days we refer to as the Middle Ages sure did. According to [1], more precisely the word came into English around 1300. According

> Some scholars in those dark days we refer to as the Middle Ages sure did. According to [1], more precisely the word came into English around 1300. According to [2], Petrarch coined the term "Dark Ages," a term that many historians now reject because the Middle Ages were not dark, around 1330. Whether the claim by this article about how "b" made its way into debt is true, I don't know. But the claim that the "b" was added in "the dark days" obfuscates that it happened around 30 years before the birth of the idea of the Middle Ages as a dark time, and after the Renaissance started in some parts of Europe [3]. [1] https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=debt https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=debt [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance