There's a "Liver" in Delivery.
Oct. 5th, 2012 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saint_monkey- Thu, 12:01: Guys! There is a "liver" in "delivery!" There's a Hannibal Lecter joke in there somewhere.
- Thu, 12:02: RT @sarcastic: Fairytales don't tell children dragons exist, they already know dragons exist. Fairytales tell children dragons can be killed
- Thu, 17:07: Happy Birthday, Sputnik.
"Liver" has a different root than "Delivery." In Proto-Indo-Eurpoean (a dead forefather to most european languages,) "Libr" meant something like "sticky" referring to the liver's function in creation of lipids, or fats. "Delivery" has as its root, the Latin word "Liberare" which means the same as "Liberate." In this case, meaning "to hand over." (Interesting when one examined the modern use of "liberate" as a synonym for "stealing.") In some ways, the Liver is named for its ability to hold on to things, while Delivery is all about letting things go.
