Totally dumbed down
    16th July 2019

I’ve no idea how old the Daily Mail Correspondent who asked the question is, but has she never heard of a dictionary? Probably not, if she went to school after the Blob became rampant.
    The question was: “Why do the names of so many shapes; decagon, octagon, etc.; end in ‘gon’?” The dictionary sez . . . ‘gon’ is Greek for angle and the bit before it is the number of angles (and also sides) the shape has.
    A couple of minutes tops to find that out. Which raises another question: why did the Mail’s Answers bloke think it worthwhile to use such a limp question?