"Defenestration"

       While going to the Merriam-Webster website to look up another word, I discovered their video feature on interesting words.  "Defenestration" is certainly one of those, and while it's not one you and I are likely to need in our everyday vocabulary, the story behind it is worth knowing.

       Its Latin derivation might lead you to think the word means something like "out the window," and you'd be right.  But then how did such a word come into existence?

                                          You can learn that here.