Reposted by ClintD
The word ‘island’ contains the same element as ‘Jersey’, ‘Scandinavia’, and ‘Batavia’:
Proto-Germanic *agwī, a word meaning “land in or close to a body of water”.
It was derived from *ahwō, a distant cousin of Latin ‘aqua’.
‘Island’ isn’t related to ‘isle’ at all. Click my graphic for more:
![Wiki entry:
The match had many bizarre incidents
Karpov's team included noted Soviet
psychologist and hypnotherapist Vladimir
Petrovich Zukhar [rul, while Korchnoi enlisted
the help of two American Ananda Marga yoga
specialists who had recently been convicted
of attempted murder and released on bail.(1]/2]
There was more controversy off the board,
with histrionics ranging from X-raying of
chairs, protests about the flags used on the
board and Korchnoi's complaints that Zukhar,
sitting in the front row, attempted to hypnotise
him.[3l When Karpov's team sent him a
blueberry yogurt during a game without any
request for one by Karpov, the Korchnoi team
protested, claiming it could be some kind of
code. They later said this was intended as a
parody of earlier protests, but it was taken
seriously at the time.!4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rzgxnxi42gyskrxw247ofmee/bafkreicuhxs5qb7k72l6tnggttrb4qgoyzu2ejm57xanahlv67joibapje)
