In the spirit of Christmas and admittedly a tenuous link to the famous Charles Dickens novel “A Christmas Carol,” my Christmas blog is about the words from the past, present and future! Just like food, words in the English language have a life-span! Some words we use today are actually thousands of years old and originate from other languages like Latin or Greek. Others have changed their meaning with time, been replaced or completely ditched. The following words that were us