Whether we realise it or not, it turns out much of our common language originated in science - more specifically, in the oldest scientific journal in the world.
If you've asked someone to take your photograph, been told you have a negative attitude or ordered your food wrapped in aluminium foil recently, then you can thank science for your vernacular.
The news comes as the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) re-launches its online edition, and with it a breakdown of the most referenced sources.
According to the Guardian newspaper, the scientific journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society is the fourth most quoted source in the dictionary, understandably beaten by the more typically literary sources of novelist Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, and The Times newspaper.
Source: New Scientist