Every human has a body. Yet, languages differ in how they divide the body into parts to name them. While universal naming strategies exist, there is also variation in the vocabularies of body parts ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. Today’s linguistic lesson is a two-parter. Well, if you really want to get into it, it could potentially be several parts.

Join us as we try to figure out how our body parts got their names. Body parts would probably have been one of the first things that ancient peoples gave names to, so not only do we find hundreds of ...