jessieblackwood:

northray:

lyrangalia:

carry-on-my-wayward-butt:

voltisubito:

Who the fuck named the Sahara Desert anyway

Sahara is just the Arabic word for “deserts”

You fucking named it the Desert Desert

way to fucking go

chai tea

I’ll take “European Imperialists Who Never Bothered To Translate The Local Languages” for $200, Alex.

River Avon Even on the same island…

And we can better that. Lake Windermere in the Lake District is named for its Old English origins. Winde means lake, Mere means lake, and lake…well, you can tell where I’m going with this, can’t you?