Today’s One Big Happy, with one of Ruthie’s word confusions: Collage, collagen: etymological cousins. From NOAD2: collage a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric onto a backing. ORIGIN early 20th cent.: from French, literally ‘gluing.’ collagen the main structural protein found in animal … Continue reading It’s the glue, Ruthie