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Lionel Richie’s “Stuck on you” or Mary Wells’s “like a stamp to a letter, like the birds of a feather we stick together” from “My Guy” fall apart when you try to use caulk. “Shall I compare thee to a breezy hut?” Or even lyrics. I can find no sonnets or love songs that feature caulk prominently. Unfortunately, however, the word just doesn’t do well in the literary world. That trim doesn’t fit quite right? Caulk it! You’ve got air coming through that gap by the window? Caulk it! Your seams are slipping on the siding? You guessed: caulk it! If in the larger world love covers a multitude of sins, caulk performs the same function in construction and amateur house improvement projects. Caulk is to the carpenter what duct tape is to the handy person. Then, cat-in-the-hat fashion, it gets on your hands and the tile and the wall and your clothes and face and hair. Voila! Caulking is invented.Ĭaulk is that marvelous mucous-like compound you use to squeeze out a thin bead and brilliantly finish off a crack in your tile job. Picture some frustrated medieval owner of a breezy hut trying to fill a crack between their dirt floor and stick walls by stomping some goo into the space. “Today’s word, caulk, sticks to the path of a fairly specialized word, no? It comes to us via Middle English and Latin, with ancient meanings of “to tread” and “heal.” The same root gives us the technical name for the heel bone: calcaneus. Kain, here’s his thoughts on caulk and its etymology: I will search for a second rogue answer floating around out there like yesterday, but nothing so far. Others may have guessed quickly if they’re familiar with it. I know at least some people probably learned what this was today after getting it or failing it. As in, it’s used a ton all over buildings for sealing windows, frames, elements of bathrooms and more. Caulk comes in a tube and is meant to seal air/water leaks in gaps. I have already seen some level of confusion from perhaps the younger crowd who may not know what caulk is at all, given that they may not have used the product themselves. This semantic shift from part of a tree to book is rather common in world languages the word book is likely connected to the beech tree, and Latin liber. (Photo by BuildPix/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images) Getty Images Codicil any supplement appendix derives via Late Latin cdicillus from Latin cdex (stem cdic-) bound book or, earlier, piece of wood or tree trunk.
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