GRAMMAR CRIMES DIVISION

The word “fancy” was invented to justify paying more for the same thing.

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The word fancy is a shortened form of fantasy, from the Greek phantasia. It originally meant imagination or whim, later shifting to mean elaborate or ornamental, and it was not coined to justify higher prices.

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