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doctor

New doctors swear an oath traced to Hippocrates, who lived around 400 BC, over two thousand years before modern medicine.

teacher

The word school comes from the Greek skhole, which actually meant leisure, since only those with spare hours could study.

dentist

George Washington never wore wooden teeth; his dentures were built from ivory, gold, lead, and even real human and animal teeth.

engineer

The word engineer shares its root with ingenious, both from the Latin ingenium, meaning cleverness or natural talent.

mechanic

A skilled mechanic can often diagnose an engine problem just by listening carefully to the sounds the running motor makes.

plumber

The word plumber comes from the Latin plumbum, meaning lead, because early pipes were made of that soft, heavy metal.

gardener

A careful gardener rotates crops between beds each year, so pests and diseases in the soil cannot settle in and multiply.

florist

The word florist comes from the Latin flos, meaning flower, the same root behind the words flora and flourish.

scientist

The word scientist was coined only in the 1830s; before that, such thinkers were usually called natural philosophers.

carpenter

The carpenter's rule measure twice, cut once survives because wood, once sawn too short, can never be made longer again.

lawyer

Lawyers call the bar an actual wooden railing in old courtrooms that separated the public from the judge and the working attorneys.

soldier

The word soldier comes from solidus, a Roman gold coin, because troops in the empire were once paid in that money.

singer

A trained opera singer can project over a whole orchestra without a microphone, using a booming overtone called the singer's formant.

painter

House painters once mixed lead into their paint for durability, a practice banned long after its slow poison was understood.

butcher

A skilled butcher breaks a whole animal down into cuts, a craft once essential in every town before supermarkets existed.

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