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WORD STORY: baggage.
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WORD STORY: baggage. Baggage first meant belongings carried on a journey, including an army’s movable equipment. Emotional baggage weighs nothing, but we still carry it.
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WHERE THE NAME CAME FROM: The source of “baggage”. Middle English borrowed French “bagage” for belongings or equipment carried from place to place. The deeper origin of “bag” is uncertain.
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HOW THE MEANING CHANGED: A travel load became a mental one.. Memories and circumstances carried from the past can burden the present, which made travel baggage a natural metaphor.
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