More from KUOW How We Live Where Did 'Black Friday' Come From? Not Where You Think KUOW | By Marcie Sillman Published November 26, 2014 at 2:01 PM AKST Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen Flickr Photo/John Henderson (CC-BY-NC-ND) Black Friday in downtown Seattle at Westlake in 2010. Ross Reynolds speaks with linguistics journalist Ben Zimmer about the origins of the shopping phrases "Black Friday," "Cyber Monday," and "Super Saturday."