doomsday & the domesday book

when i was just a wee raynorling and my kinesiologist first told me about the domesday book, i was like, “stop throwing medicine balls at me, doc. if there’s an ancient book that makes predictions about the end of days out there, imma get my hands on it and settle some bar bets.” needless to say, it was a major bummer when i found out that the domesday book was little more than a boring census that some old bastard  commissioned so he could keep track of all the pigs in his realm.

i assumed it was just another case of boring books disguising their boringness with a rad title, but i recently learned that doomsday and domesday (both pronounced the same) may not be related after all. the book was apparently stored in a hospice in the city of winchester called domus dei (god’s house). thus: the domus dei book. doomsday on the other hand, comes from the germanic doms dæg and means judgement day.