Christmas: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies

Some fun pairs of seasonal etymologies. Thank you to all our Patreon supporters! Please check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheEndlessKnot Posters of some of our videos are on Redbubble: EndlessKnot.redbubble.com Image used under Creative Commons license: Great Bath: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Great_Bath_in_Bath_(UK).jpg General etymological sources: http://www.alliterative.net/general-credits Transcript: Today in “Surprisingly Connected Etymologies”, we’re thinking about Christmas and taking a look at some festive vocab. Over the Yuletide season, you might sit down to dinner and pull one of those Christmas crackers, which in addition to their bang will give you a tissue paper crown, a small trinket, and a terrible joke. And you know what, that joke may be etymologically the perfect thing for Yule. Because you see, Yule, which originally referred not to Christmas but a pagan Germanic midwinter fertility festival, from Old English geol (which is jol i