The old Germanic-derived word ‘doom’ does not mean catastrophe but simply ‘judgment’. So why do we associate it with disaster?
Photograph: AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: AFP/Getty Imagesn alarming climate news, scientists recently reported that the Thwaites glacier, nicknamed the “doomsday glacier”, in the Antarctic might be melting more quickly than previously thought. Who knew we had such a convenient signal for when the end of the world was nigh? But why is a very bad thing called “doomsday”?
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