536: collar versus column May 27, 2016

If a column holds up a building, what holds up a head?
The Latin word for 'neck' is 'collum' which translates into 'collar' and it is the reason that people talk about collar-bones and shirt-collars which happen to sit on one's neck. Going back to the initial question, some believe that it is related to 'column', which makes some phonological and semantic sense.

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