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So, I was reading this article on how Americans are apparently adopting Bristishisms wholesale. (For the record, I don’t buy it. I've never heard an American say “Bob’s your uncle” or “barmy” unless he was imitating a British person. It’s gonna take a lot more than a love of Downton Abbey for Cockney rhyming slang to gain a foothold here.) Anyway, that article linked to another article which mentioned that the term “ginger,” meaning “redhead,” was popularized by the delight that is Ron Weasley, although “singer Geri Halliwell, aka Ginger Spice, also played her part in making the term better known.”
And then I stopped cold.
Wait. They called her Ginger Spice because she had red hair? This was a revelation to me. I knew Brits called redheads “ginger” but I never connected that to Ginger Spice.
So, why had I previously thought she was called Ginger? Yes, that's right. Because ginger is a spice, obviously. In fact, I thought she was the only one of the five who was logically named. "They’re called 'The Spice Girls,' yet only one is actually named for a spice. Why are they calling her 'Sporty'? Why aren't they calling her, like, “Cinnamon” or something?"
Not my best day.
