Thursday, February 28, 2008

Word Origins: Guinness Book

History of Guinness Book



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Guinness Book was discovered by Sir Huge Beaver. One day in the year 1951, he had an argument with his friends that which type of birds are the fastest in the world.

There was no conclusion at the end because nobody have evidence to prove their assumption.

Beaver came up with the idea that it would be great it we could have a reference book about the most of everything. It could be make a big hit.


Beaver works with Norris and Ross Mcwhirter to publish the first guinness book and gain a huge popularity in the short period of time and became a yearly edition until today.

Learning Part
Evidence = Something helpful to form a conclusion or to support a fact

Prove = To set up a truth

Assumption = Acception of something without a proof.

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