The porcupine is certainly not a source of pork, but the word pork and the porc- in the word porcupine both come ultimately from Latin porcus, âpig, hog.â Porcupine was modified from a compound word in Romance languages such as medieval French porc espin, literally, âspiny pig.â (The espin part comes from Latin spina, âthorn, spine.â)
Men are two years older than women in the average relationship, Facebook says. Apparently, the cougar phenomenon is just a blip. Because according to Facebook, when it comes to coupling up, men average about two years older than their female partners internationally.
NBC. Americans are getting married later and later. The average age of first marriage in the United States is 27 for women and 29 for men, up from 23 for women and 26 for men in 1990 and 20 and 22 (!) in 1960.or women who graduated from high school and went to some college, the average age for first birth is 24 and the average marriage age is 27; 58 percent of first births are to unwed mothers.