• jol
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    5 months ago

    OK, but that doesn’t answer my question of how it became the name of the planet.

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      5 months ago

      Rough approximation: Earth as opposed to sky, becomes earth as opposed to sea, becomes earth as in the known world as opposed to the places we don’t settle (sea, sky, hell, etc.), becomes the place we live as opposed to Mars or Betelgeuse.

      We walk on dirt, we live on dirt, we live on Dirt.

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        5 months ago

        That’s a pretty good and likely summary, thanks!