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Tables & Chairs!
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Hi all, can you please put my Mum out of her misery. For years now she's asked why a table is called a table and a chair a chair. Does anyone know?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.table = The term "table" is derived from a merger of French table and Old English tabele, ultimately from the Latin word tabula, "a board, plank, flat piece". In Late Latin, tabula took over the meaning previously reserved to mensa (preserved in Spanish mesa "table"). In Old English, the word replaced bord for this meaning
everything you ever wanted to know about chairs- and then some!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair
everything you ever wanted to know about chairs- and then some!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair