curious george

Who decided that "curious" has two of the letter u, but "curiosity" should be stripped of the second u?

That bugs me every time I write the word. It should be curiousity. The -ity of being curious. Who goes around being "curios?" Aren’t "curios" figurines that get put in cabinets named for such a purpose? The Black Eyed Peas asked, "Where Is The Love." Well, I ask, "Where is the U"?

Then again, this sort of wondering is exactly what makes me the "perpetual Curious George" that I proudly acknowledge myself to be… but you know what? So was Einstein. And Voltaire. And Eleanor Roosevelt. See for yourself–Frederic Premji at BlogMotivation offers up 22 examples of my fellow Curious Georges in his 22 Great Quotes On Curiosity.

I wonder if any of them figured out what happened to curiosity’s other u…

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