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Thread #167564 Message #4044406
Posted By: Donuel
06-Apr-20 - 10:43 AM
Thread Name: BS: Can someone tell me.......(euphemizing hell)
Subject: RE: BS: Can someone tell me.......
Of course you are right BWL.
Lotsa diffences buteen inglish an Muricans peach.
In the UK you go to hospital.
Here, we go to THE hospital. (Its as though we only have one hospital)
Here, hospitals with no supplies are called Holocospitals :^\
The etiology of the word hospital comes from medicinal Horse Spit. :^/
HOSPITAL. Home Of Sick People Including Treatment And Labour.
The word hospital really originates from the Latin hospes, meaning guest or stranger. It's the root of words such as hospice, hostel, hotel, and hospitality. The word patient comes from patior, which is to suffer. Hence a hospital can be interpreted etymologically as a place where strangers who suffer come to be cared for.
*In Canada they treat hosers.