Also in news: I’ve begun grant writing. (What’s that? You need a grant written? Well, do let me know!)
In my efforts to understand the arcane arts that apply to grant writing, I’ve begun reading about budgets and have discovered this delightful etymological morsel:
Budget is from the middle French bougette, which is the diminutive of bouge, a leather bag. In the Middle Ages in England (where they liked to speak French to look classier and/or because half of them were Normans aka French), letters and documents on taxes and spending were brought before Parliament in… a small leather bag. Fast forward a bunch o’ centuries and you get budget.
Even better? The middle French came via the Latin bulga, which was of Celtic origin! Holy travels, Batman, was that kind of globe trotting even in the budget back then?
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