‘I’m totally ghosting Taylor’: Tinder, hip hop’s effect on the spooky word

It’s Hallowe’en – a Scottish shortening of Allhallow-even, the Eve of All Saints (Day), “hallow” meaning “holy person, saint”. This festival, with origins in the Celtic Samhain, marks the day when ghosts return to Earth.The word “ghost” – a supernatural being or the spirit or soul of a person – of Germanic (and ultimately Indo-European) origin, emerged as the Old English gast (other spellings include gaast, gæst), becoming gost or gooste (and other variations) in Middle English. Forms with gh-…

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