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I often wondered how words got applied to certain things...I mean, who first called the sky "sky", a tree a "tree", etc. etc.
Conversely, who also coined particular phrases? for example, somebody was the first person to say "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush...." or "a rolling stone gathers no moss...",
amazingly, words and phrases not only had to catch on, but be used so frequently as to become part of standard language know throughout the history of humanity. It is simply mind-blowing to think of how every common word or phrase in humanity started with someone, somewhere, utilizing said word or phrase.
I only mention this because nobody, in the history of man-kind, has ever accepted the phrase "franchise cornerback" as part of lexicon, because humanity as a whole knows it's simply a ridiculous notion and reject it as a whole.....
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