Our mission at Word Wanders is to inspire, inform and entertain people by sharing stories about language as a reflection of the human mind. We do this by combining our forces of academic knowledge and visual storytelling. We select everyday words with interesting word origins, and we capture their stories in a single image.


Blog

In our blog we offer a selection of bite-size stories about the origin of everyday words. These are our Etymo snacks. Each week, we present a longer article as our Story of the week to satisfy a bigger appetite.

Presentations

Writing and drawing etymology is fun, but we also like to talk about it. We offer live presentations, which are somewhere between interactive lectures and visual stories. Do you want to host a presentation? Drop us a line!

Newsletter

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“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes