A word that has really bugged me for some time now is ‘spam.’ I’ll wager that everyone reading this thinks they know what the word means but if pressed to explain its origins would end up scratching their heads and throwing their hands up in surrender. Now, if they were an obsessive-compulsive researcher like me, they would just look it up—which is what I eventually did. And the story of spam is . . . well, what else can I say but fascinating.
