minion. Okay. And you know, minion ... I mean nowadays when people hear minion you

probably think of the cute little yellow guys. So the cute little yellow people

from the cartoon movies minions. You know, with the ... their boss or their leader of

GRU. I think is his name. So we often think of like this , this little sort of

character here. These are minions today. But the original meaning of minion was

very, very different. So let's let's look at the note here. So this is what we

would mean. Today, the word minion means an unimportant person who is merely a

follower or a servant of a more powerful person and will do ... will often do

whatever is asked of them, especially dirty deeds. Now even though, in the movie they

made a cute. Actually movie did kind of copy this idea. That's what minions do

they, they look for some sort of an evil or bad person that they're supposed to

follow. They made that joke about them and in the second movie where they went

through a lot of different bosses. All right. But anyway. Let's continue here.

The word seems to have a long history. Originally it was more positive. It came

from middle French meaning a favorite darling or someone who is beloved. So it

had a very positive meaning to begin with. It also had an adjective use

meaning dainty, pleasing, gentle, etc. The adjective use is also connected to the

expensive steak filet mignon. That's where we got filet mignon is. Filet

of course, the piece of meat. But mignon meaning well some people said it came

from the idea of like the steak was was dainty or soft or maybe it was just

very pleasing in that way. So that's where .... So this origin is also connected

to filet mignon, the steak. Okay. Let's continue. The noun meaning was especially

used for a favorite of a sovereign. A sovereign meaning like a king or a

queen or another important person. Somebody really high up. Perhaps this is

how he took on or it became... it took on its more negative meaning. Perhaps

those sovereigns or important people wanted them to do dirty deeds for them

Or perhaps the sovereigns or important people just favored those that were too

dirty deeds for them. So that that's probably one of the ways that it worked

out to eventually have it's more negative meaning. Okay. And we just have a

few examples here to cover this. Example number one. The mafia boss sent some of

his minions to knock someone off. Remember, knock someone off means to kill someone.

So we'd often hear that. Like the mafia boss may have his minions. They

would say. Or number two. We've often heard it this way. The devil sent his

minions here. We often think of the devil having minions. You know, having you

know, followers that will just do whatever they ask him to do. To do his

dirty deeds. All right. And the last one is really to do mostly with the filet

mignon. Her favorite dish is filet mignon. Okay. And so these all come originally

from me the minion. You know originally coming from Middle French. Okay . Anyway I

hope you got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye