"Ive never heard of the Bounty," said my friend Moses. We were talking about the ship--and that to me was incredible. "I just thought bounty was a paper towel...."
"What! Bounty is a perfectly wonderful word! It means abundance, generosity. It's also a reward--in Puerto Rico, there's talk of putting a bounty on iguanas, our local plague. Kill one and you get ten bucks!"
OK--so what I didn't know is that it comes from Latin--though I suspected that--goes through old French, and is related--duh!--to another word. Bonus!
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