Unrelated Words
English has innumerable ways of being deceptive. Despite our ability to forge connections between concepts, many seemingly related words aren’t even extended family.
Today, we’re sharing a series of these surprisingly unrelated words. The word pairs we’ve selected look like they share the same root, but they don’t. For example, etymologically speaking, you’d think the –male in female is connected, to, well, male, but it’s technically not. Now, the two don’t come from Venus and Mars, but they do have completely different word ancestries!