We found the origins of four COMPLETELY RANDOM words and present them to you in NO PARTICULAR ORDER.
SPONGE
Meaning: A porous skeleton inhabited by a group of tiny aquatic marine invertebrates
Origin: From the Latin spongia and the Greek sphoggos, meaning “water growth.”
BOB
Meaning: Nickname of Robert
Origin: From an old Germanic word that means “shining with fame.”
SQUARE
Meaning: A rectangular shape with four equal sides
Origin: From the Old French esquarre, which itself came from the Latin exquadra, which means “out of four.”
PANTS
Meaning: Trousers
Origin: From a 16th-century Italian comic character known as Pantalone, who wore strange trousers. This gave us the word pantaloon, which first meant clown, and then the plural pantaloons, or trousers. The word was shortened to pants when it reached America.
SpongeBob’s birthday is July 14, 1986.