Hello there! Welcome to our digital castle. ![DQmPsDLdNkof6JkwccnRittcLDafRwGGBUXCxhN3n9oqFu7_1680x8400.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmT4dV2Gwm7jMJRLY1gi5jbTcSCvwrhJM3PfJPccy9z4VH/DQmPsDLdNkof6JkwccnRittcLDafRwGGBUXCxhN3n9oqFu7_1680x8400.jpg) Artwork credit - @yeszuzia on steemit and instagram Hey everyone.. Nice to see you again. :) Today I want to talk about "etymology" as it has been one of my growing passions, I feel like there's so much more to learn about how words work and what they mean or could mean or could have meant.. The study of this subject is deep and rich and has changed my life ever since, simple words I used to use almost unconsciously now have so much more meaning. Language itself seems to have so much more meaning and whole new dimensions in my mind have been unlocked in regards to the nature of language and our current languages. ![quest.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQma55SDZ8B7p8m44Af7fYK1fgyY59Jb3eRmYea74fQW8tC/quest.png) So.. This quest will be a general challenge where you can submit anything about the subject of etymology, could be an essay on the history of a word or a movie or a song or whatever. Feel free to be creative, we try to allow for out of the box thinking entries when it works! BUT.. We're also going to do a lil bonus round too, an additional 3 XP will be awarded to the person who brings me back the best essay on the history of the word.. "Etymology". And now a moment for our sponsors! ![sponsors.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQ8PJbNDqk9nSbtRgxMhcYruTPFhPqfmMd2E4eF9HX8Yt/sponsors.png) First up is @ats-david who has helped greatly! If you appreciate this contest or just his efforts in general you may want to look into voting for him as a witness at @ats-witness, he does a lot of other cool things for the community as well! Next is @timcliff who has similarly helped out the contest significantly and who is also a witness who does a lot for the community, so likewise if you appreciate the efforts you may want to vote for him as witness also! I'd also like to thank @theguruasia who has pledged at least 20 steem to the second and third place prizes and he said he may even donate more. And @nxtblg who has been regularly resteeming and upvoting our challenges which has been a big help! Plus one other person who has been helping a lot who deserves some credit is @soundlegion who has also been upvoting the contests regularly. And while not technically sponsors, we are working with @davemccoy and those at #newbiegames and #newbieresteemday and they do a great service to the community so definitely check them out if you appreciate that, or if you're new. Also not a sponsor, though @iexplore has taken a huge workload directly off of my shoulders and is now doing the "catch up" rounds, those should be posted on the @ifc page.. And I suggest giving him a follow and some support as well if you appreciate the work as he is doing an amazingly helpful and important job! Oh and he usually posts the catch up rounds on Sunday the day after I post mine on Saturday. ![560798_3575671445081_979208719_n.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYkgokw87P3rYeRcuXok6eL6wVanLnQ5NcR9QXeKttU9C/560798_3575671445081_979208719_n.jpg) ![rules.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPrkSHkXT4LgiwBZn4oHhouSnf7JXbBxVCbY5DZZ3Qk6k/rules.png) For this challenge.. If there's a tie.. We will do another round to see who wins. The winner will be decided by whoever gets the most votes. The only people who can vote in a qualifying sense are myself and the judges I've selected and we will vote by leaving a comment on the submission that we like the most and say something like.. "I vote for this one" and a reason why we voted would be good too, but is not mandatory. You have until this challenges post payout ends to submit your post. Though we do accept late entries if you get it in before all the judges vote. The challenge will finish after 7 days when the post ends and provides its payout cycle and unless there is a tie, the winner will gain the steem, the XP and have a point to go towards their long term win. (minus the 25% for curation)

Rules

1. Twenty Fourth challenge starts now and is an etymology challenge. 2. Create a blog post for the contest. 3. Title must contain contest round, "Information Finding Championship - Season 1 : Round 24 entry" 4. Leave a link to your post in the comments below. (This part important and a lot of people forget this, please put the blog link in the right place) 5. And you also have to use the #informationfinding tag in your blog post as well.

Acceptable content

1. Etymology
2. Language is primarily in English and if you would like to participate from elsewhere in the world it is up to you to translate your message into English so we can understand you. 3. We also encourage role playing for those who enjoy doing that. :) Good luck in the contest! ![DQmT7sB8PtmTesH6vytXMgzkeYqn5dedZd94XYbBB1FwkwQ.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYDYEJgNoHVFttcVFZY7Z2C9fBuK4fr916MncLdKrqwbS/DQmT7sB8PtmTesH6vytXMgzkeYqn5dedZd94XYbBB1FwkwQ.jpg) Artwork credit - @yeszuzia on steemit and instagram

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