Rhubarb cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit:- "Rhubarb" originally comes from the two Greek words for rhubarb. "Rheon" from the Persian "rewend", later became the Latin word "rheum", meaning rhubarb. The other Greek word is "rha", an ancient name for the Volga River in Russian, where rhubarb was cultivated, having been introduced there from China via the Silk Road. In medieval Latin, "rheon" and "rha" became "rheum barbarum", literally "foreign rhubarb" or "strange rhubarb", and evolved later into "rheubarbarum". Most likely, the English word "rhubarb" entered the language via the French word "rhubarbe" brought over by
Bias against left-handed people "left" itself derives from the Anglo-Saxon word "lyft", "weak". In Ancient Greek both words meaning "left" were euphemisms: the word ἀριστερός, "aristerós" (the standard word in Modern Greek as well) is derived from ἂριστος, "áristos", "best", and the word εὺώνυμος, "euōnymos", "of good name", is another euphemism used in lieu of "ill-named". The Latin adjective "sinister/sinistra/sinistrum" originally meant "left" but took on meanings of "evil" or "unlucky" by the Classical Latin era, and this double meaning survives in European derivatives of Latin, and in the English word "sinister". Alternatively, "sinister" comes from the Latin word "sinus" meaning "pocket": a traditional