Why are large powerful things called mammoth, behemoth, leviathan, gargantuan, juggernaut?
how to win him back p> When we hear or read one of these words—mammoth, behemoth, leviathan, gargantuan, juggernaut—most of us understand them to mean something enormous and hence powerful, but perhaps only from the context. Most people know, of course, that a mammoth was a large, prehistoric ancestor of the elephant. Why was it [more...]