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http://www.hotforwords.com to request words. Quarantine, why 40 days?
Marina on phone: Yeah, I'd like to being Gorby with me into the country, what...
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http://www.hotforwords.com to request words. Quarantine, why 40 days?
Marina on phone: Yeah, I'd like to being Gorby with me into the country, what exactly is the procedure? Listening 40 days?? What? I have to quarantine him for 40 days? But he's my co-host.. I can't shoot my lessons without him laying at my feet or making noise off to the side while he tries to make himself comfortable on top of the microphone wires!
Listening -- guy yelling
40 Days! Why 40 days? Why not 41? Or 39? And doesn't quarantine have the word 40 in it anyway?? You know what? I'm just going to smuggle him in.....We hear guy yelling.. you can't do that we'll... and phone hangs up.
Can you believe the nerve of them, they want me to put Gorby into quarantine for 40 days before I can bring him into the country! That's crazy! But what's even crazier is.. did you know that the word quarantine actually has the word 40 in it? And it's a really old word.. I don't think they were quarantining dogs a thousand years ago.
So what's going on here? Must investigate!
Before we look at the word quarantine, we need to look at a number first.. and that number is the number 40.
40 is a VERY biblical number. Noah's flood lasted for 40 days. Moses was 40 years old when God summoned him and he kept the herd of Jethro for 40 years. Moses also stayed for 40 days and 40 nights in the summit of Mount Sanai while the commandments were being hacked out. The Hebrews wandered around the desert for 40 years. And both David and Solomon each had 40 year reigns over Isreal and Jerusalem respectively. When Jesus was 40 days old, he was presented to the Temple of Jerusalem, and he also fasted for 40 days and nights in the desert while 40 days separated his Ascension and his Resurrection. And the number 40 was used exactly 40 times over the course of the television series Lost.
It's because of this popularity in the bible that the Venetians chose that number as the number of days they required a ship suspected of carrying disease to have to stay away from the port and passengers would not be allowed to go ashore for the full 40 days. They figured that the disease would kill off the suspected people on the ship and kill itself off in 40 days. And back then they had the bubonic plague, which was a pretty deadly thing!
They called this restriction quarantina, which meant, "a period of 40 days" related to the Latin quattor where we get quatro from.
So, because of the bubonic plague, and the bible's obsession with the number 40, we ended up with the word quarantine and I have to deal with it today with my co-host Gorby!
For your homework, are you aware of any other reasons for quarantines today?
Now.. Gorby, we're going to dress you up like a doll.. that way we can slip you past security! Now don't move!
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