Thank You For Thinking


You are what you eat! Haha. Dear Fellow Philo-surfer, This week I’ve been thinking about what it means to be “thankful.” First of all, when you look at it for what it is, “thanks” is a very weird looking word! How did it enter our language? Here is what one Claude AI search for “thanks, etymology” reveals: “"Thanks" comes from Old English þanc (pronounced "thonk"), meaning "thought, gratitude, good will." It's from Proto-Germanic þankaz, related to þankōną ("to think"). The connection between...

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