I just had one of those mind-blowing moments i just had to share it with you.
First of all let me point out that English is not my first language and i just learned it in school plus music, movies, games...
I've played WoW on and off since vanilla and was familiar with the item "hearthstone" that you have in it. It is the most iconic and well known item cause it's the first one you get and you use it throughout the game.
Today we obviously have a different game borrowing the name from WoW named Hearthstone that i'm sure you are all aware of.
for the last 10+ years i was convinced that the item/game name was a constructed word from the word heart (as in blood pumping muscle) and stone.
It somehow made some weird sense in my mind since you use the item in WoW to go back to the inn you chose to be your "home", and i guess home is where your heart is......right?
Whenever i would search for Heartstone in Google i would always get the "did you mean Hearthstone" correction from it, and i would always wonder what did i write wrong, but kinda never really went too deep into it.
But suddenly i realized the the actual word is spelled Heart(h)stone. There is an "H" in between.
So i searched the word "Hearth" and to my astonishment found out that that's a completely different word and that this whole time, last 10+ years, i was wrong.
Hearth actually means the floor of a fireplace, which makes much more sense cause the Hearth-stone is a stone used to construct the floor of the fireplace.
I know this might seem obvious to many of you, if your first language is English, but am i the only one that thought that the actual name of the item/game it Heart-Stone?
First of all let me point out that English is not my first language and i just learned it in school plus music, movies, games...
I've played WoW on and off since vanilla and was familiar with the item "hearthstone" that you have in it. It is the most iconic and well known item cause it's the first one you get and you use it throughout the game.
Today we obviously have a different game borrowing the name from WoW named Hearthstone that i'm sure you are all aware of.
for the last 10+ years i was convinced that the item/game name was a constructed word from the word heart (as in blood pumping muscle) and stone.
It somehow made some weird sense in my mind since you use the item in WoW to go back to the inn you chose to be your "home", and i guess home is where your heart is......right?
Whenever i would search for Heartstone in Google i would always get the "did you mean Hearthstone" correction from it, and i would always wonder what did i write wrong, but kinda never really went too deep into it.
But suddenly i realized the the actual word is spelled Heart(h)stone. There is an "H" in between.
So i searched the word "Hearth" and to my astonishment found out that that's a completely different word and that this whole time, last 10+ years, i was wrong.
Hearth actually means the floor of a fireplace, which makes much more sense cause the Hearth-stone is a stone used to construct the floor of the fireplace.
I know this might seem obvious to many of you, if your first language is English, but am i the only one that thought that the actual name of the item/game it Heart-Stone?