In your Word/Play today we discuss bread and bodies. Pretty gruesome? Not really.
First, in the word companion we have two Latin words:
With (com) and bread (pan or panis).
In the next word, related to 'companion' (meaning 'friend' or 'a person I eat bread with') is company. Company is another word whose two Latin roots (com and pan) mean 'people eating bread together' Of course, now it means a business concern.
Another word related to working together but not related to bread is corporation. Corporation has a basic Latin root: Body (corp) as in the body of a human. It means a group of people who work together.
Speaking of human bodies, a dead human body is often called a corpse. Corpse meant a living human at one point but the meaning changed to a dead human.
Not related to a dead human but related to working together with other humans is corps. Corps is pronounced 'core.'
We can see corps in the Beatles record label: Apple Corps and in the Army Corps of Engineers, a US group of engineers. Try not to confuse 'corpse' (a dead body) with 'corps' (a group of people working together).
Music is
You Kill Only Sad by WAUmesawada from GBUC.net
High Song by Huang Ling from Last.fm.
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