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Does 'Homework' Spelled Backwards Mean 'Child Abuse' in Latin?

Thousands of languages have existed throughout the history of humanity. there is no evidence the word "krowemoh" ever belonged to any of them., alex kasprak, published jan. 31, 2021.

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The claim that the word "homework" spelled backwards translates to "child abuse" in Latin has been a feature of the internet since at least March 2013 . In January 2021, a Reddit thread brought the assertion renewed interest .

The claim is false. The word "krowemoh" does not exist in the Latin language. In fact, not even the character "W" existed in Latin, whose alphabet contained 23 characters . Latin, the language of the Roman Empire and the Catholic Church, had largely died out by the 6th century AD — replaced by regional dialects that would ultimately become the Romance languages of Europe.

A form of the character W was first used around the 7th century AD, because the Latin alphabet did not have a character to represent the sound /w/ spoken in Germanic and old English languages. As a solution, writers began using "uu" (or "vv" as u and v referred to the same character in the classical Latin alphabet) to represent the sound /w/. The character we now know as "W" did not see widespread use until the 1500s , well after Latin-speaking humans were creating new words in that language.

All of this is to say that "krowemoh" is not a word and it certainly does not mean "child abuse" in Latin or any other language we are aware of.

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Fact check: 'Homework' spelled backwards does not translate to 'child abuse' in Latin

The claim: 'Homework' spelled backward means 'child abuse' in Latin

Many words and phrases are known to have different meanings in other languages, and much of the English vocabulary is derived from Latin roots.

Some social media users are claiming that the word "homework" spelled backward has a meaning in the Latin language.

A  Feb. 27 Instagram post  with almost 18,000 likes features a screenshot of the Google search, "what is homework backwards." The result purportedly reads, "So basically 'Homework' spelled backwards is 'krowemoh' which in Latin translates to child abuse."

The same screenshot included in the Instagram meme also appears in several viral TikToks, and the hashtag #Krowemoh has more than  246,000 views on the platform . 

The Google search screenshot that users have used to make the claim is taken from a March 7, 2013, viral post  that has recently resurfaced on Twitter, where many users have  shared similar versions of the claim. 

 "I knew that this homework was just a way to abuse children," one Twitter user wrote along with the claim on Jan. 24. 

USA TODAY reached out to the Instagram user for comment.

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'Krowemoh' is not a Latin word

The word "krowemoh" does not exist in Latin. According to Google translate , child abuse in Latin is actually "puer abusus."

A search of "krowemoh" on online Latin - to-English dictionaries results in no matches.

The classical Latin alphabet consists of 23 characters, and the letter W is not one of them. In Latin, the letter U represented a W sound which could only occur only before a vowel, according to Dictionary.com . 

European languages that use the Latin alphabet do not use the letters K and W, and they add letters with diacritical marks or pairs of letters that read as one sound, according to Britannica . 

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The claim that "krowemoh" translates to "child abuse" in Latin was added in January to  Urbandictionary.com , a crowdsourced online dictionary of slang words and phrases. 

The Urban Dictionary definition of "krowemoh" makes a joke of the word and children having loads of homework assignments. 

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Our rating: False

The claim that "homework" spelled backward translates to "child abuse" in Latin is FALSE, based on our research. "Krowemoh" does not exist in the Latin language and the letter W is not part of the Latin alphabet. 

Our fact-check sources:

• Google Translate, accessed March 3,  English to Latin, 'puer abusus'
• Latin Dictionary, accessed March 3,  'Krowemoh' search
• Latin-Dictionary.net, accessed March 3, 'Krowemoh' search Latin to English
• Latin-English Dictionary, accessed March 3,  'Krowemoh' search Latin to English
• Dictionary.com, accessed March 3,  'What Does the Letter 'U' Have to do with 'W'?'
• Britannica, accessed March 3,  Latin alphabet
• Urban Dictionary, Jan. 6, 'Krowemoh'

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Etymology of "housework" and "homework"

In American English (perhaps British as well), "housework" and "homework" have different meanings. "Housework" refers to working around the house, such as dusting, vacuuming, etc., whereas "homework" refers to doing some school assignments at home, after school is out.

Homework can be completed outside the home, such as in a library. In order to do housework, however, one must be at one's house. How and when did two words which seem so similar at first glance gain such different meanings?

• 2 It might be interesting for you to know that I didn't find any entry in the OED regarding "housework". It is weird since I know the word exists. –  Alenanno Commented Apr 3, 2011 at 17:35
• 2 Maybe the Brits don't do houseworks! But how they've managed to keep their mansions & chesterfields so pristine is beyond me. Mm. –  Percy P. Commented Apr 3, 2011 at 17:41
• 2 We Brits invented 'housework'! Along with a rigid class system to make sure it was only done by scullery maids & other lesser mortals, leaving the lady of the house to concentrate of receiving 'gentleman callers'. But I never heard of anyone so grand they needed to pluralise the efforts others make on their behalf. –  FumbleFingers Commented Apr 3, 2011 at 17:48
• 2 And originally in English public schools (which are private) homework wouldn't be done at home (since they were boarders) but in your house - but wasn't called homework it was called prep. Great language! - for an encore we will explain cricket –  mgb Commented Apr 3, 2011 at 18:09
• Once I finish this post, I will go back to "working from home", which interestingly refers to a paid job, and is neither housework nor homework. –  Jay Commented May 1, 2012 at 18:01

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According to the OED , the original meaning of "homework" does conflate much more obviously with "housework," with the former being defined, above all, as:

Work done at home , esp. as distinguished from work done in a shop or factory.

The earliest citation is a hearty piece of precious advice from a sermon from the 1680s:

Wherefore let every Man, in the first place, look after his Homework ; what he hath to do at Home.

Less vague examples of homework were given in later quotes: Spinning, quilting, and embroidery. This crafty and practical usage seems, however, to be an obsolescent meaning of homework , with the last use from the '30s. But the word "home worker" (doing low-paying piecework) lives on, preserving this original meaning of "homework":

Most home workers are women. They need the flexibility of working hours that home work allows. ( Guardian , 1973)

The second—and now primary—meaning of "review/preparatory school work despised by youth" didn't appear until much later (late 19th century), but it's thriving and strong, having quickly overtaken the original meaning.

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The first citation of "house-work" from the OED (which hyphenates it) is from mid-19th century. Its meaning has always been as it is now: "the work done to keep a house orderly (and housewares clean)," diligently by housewives and begrudgingly by house-servants:

While the boys are engaged in out-door work, the girls could be employed in sewing or house-work . ( Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs , 1871)

Here it contrasts homework (sewing) with housework [other activities].

As FumbleFingers's Ngram shows, it has also been used in texts in its unhyphenated form, which the OED has chosen not to include, as Alenanno first noted above in the comments, although it does feature a sub-entry for the spaced "house work" (definition-less, with a single late-19th-century quote).

So the two words would seem to have diverged after the first ( homework ) took on a specialized meaning relatively late in its life. Now let's find the courage to get back to doing either/both!

• So you did found it in the OED? –  Alenanno Commented Apr 3, 2011 at 22:56
• Aye, but not as "housework," but as "house-work" and "house work." The Brits prefer 'em hyphens & spaces, it seems. –  Percy P. Commented Apr 3, 2011 at 23:38
• 1 I did find it as "housework" at dictionary.reference.com/browse/housework . I do believe American English tends to lose the hyphens in words more quickly than British English, but I am no linguis. That is just speculation. –  ssakl Commented Apr 4, 2011 at 15:21

I think it's pretty clear housework came first, as shown by this . Apart from anything else, the activity now called homework probably didn't actually occur very often in a world where many children either didn't go to school at all, or had limited access to books, writing materials, etc. at home.

But it's worth mentioning that some (non-working) women who don't really like to call themselves (or be called) a 'housewife' will accept 'home-maker'. There are various subtle differences between house and home , but they're pretty much the same thing in most contexts, notwithstanding the 1964 song A House Is Not a Home .

• 1 This 'subtle difference' in particular is one that I have always found very interesting. It makes the English language appear quite sweet (Home suggests 'family' - a 'lived-in' house). Many other languages don't have this same distinction, though they interestingly are both of Germanic origin. –  Karl Commented Apr 3, 2011 at 18:58

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