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fulcrum
Any ideas on how this word slid from bedpost in Latin to its current meaning?
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Re: fulcrum
It hasn't gone all that far, really. A bedpost is the support for the bed. A fulcrum is what supports the lever.
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Re: fulcrum
So the ancient Romans slept on teeter totters?
I think they probably had four fulcrums.
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Re: fulcrum
Archimedes said, "Give me a fulcrum, and I shall move the world," or words to that effect.
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