Challenge: Pick name or word the etymology of which you will showcase in your story and collaborate with someone else to write a story where you feature both of your etymologies. Optionally, if you cannot do collab, write an addition to a previous FFM 2026 fic by someone other than yourself and feature the etymology of two words or names (bonus points if the additional one appears in the story you are writing the addition to).
I’m not feeling up for collab, so I decided to take the easy way out and write an (attempt at an) addition to Damon L. Wakes’s They’re Mildly Radioactive, You Know. I don’t know what I wrote but I wrote something.
Viva la banana!
“The etymology of the word banana is fairly uncertain.”
“Banana banana banana banana banana banana-“
“The most interesting potential parent word might be the Arabic word that is romanized as banān and means fingertips or fingers.”
“-Banana banana banana banana banana banana-“
“Orange, however, traces its etymology beyond Arabic to Classical Persian and Sanskrit — nārang, bitter orange, and nāraṅga, orange tree, respectively-
“-Banana orange banana orange banana orange-“
“-And from there to the Dravidian language family. Fascinating, isn’t it?”
“-Banana orange banana orange banana orange banana-“
“Oh will you shut up??”
“Not before the Geiger counter does.”
“What Geiger coun-oh. Oh dear.”
Cue bananas.
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