so glad....

i didn't have all my hair cut off during that hot spell.
i shall wait for the next one or my week off in a fortnights time.

it just occurred to me.

i often wonder about the origins of words,
like "fortnight",

is it simply a shortening of "fourteen nights"?
i wonder.
but why?

Hadrian's Wall, built to guard the Romans northern England border against the marauding Scots, had forts situated at regular intervals along its length. Every two weeks the soldiers got to sleep inside them and this is where our term for two weeks, 'Fortnight' comes from.

really?
amazing.

i enjoy that sort of trivia.
thanks.