The word fun is associated with sports, entertaining media, high merriment,[2] and amusement. Although its etymology is uncertain,[1] it has been speculated that it may be derived from fonne (fool) and fonnen (the one fooling the other).[3] An 18th century meaning (still used in Orkney and Shetland[1]) was "cheat, trick, hoax", a meaning still retained in the phrase "to make fun of".[4]