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Language
The very tool we use to communicate urban legends to each other — language — is itself a source of folklore. A number of the words and phrases in use today have interesting origins that have almost become obscured in the mists of time. Equally, our sense of romance leads us to invent unusual origins for commonplace words rather than be satisfied with their mundane beginnings.
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ad hominem fallacy
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Clothing, Apparel, Person
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A golfer putting at the Hazeltine National Golf Course during the 2002 PGA Championship.
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Sponsored content can be as innocent as an ad for your local restaurant, or as deceptive as an article or TV segment where the provider fails to disclose that they received money for the space.
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New COVID-19 strain centaurus
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red herring logical fallacy
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slippery slope fallacy
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Person, Human, Silhouette
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Person, Human, Face
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Person, Human, Finger
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banished words
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