Mostly because we'd had the words "Earth" and "Planet" for a helluva long time before we realised that the Earth was a planet.
The sense of "Earth" which came first was the sense of "soil", so our planet is really just called "Soil". It's interesting to think about the process by which our ancestors figured out that "earth" wasn't just the substance underneath their feet, it was also a place.
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Mostly because we'd had the words "Earth" and "Planet" for a helluva long time before we realised that the Earth was a planet.
The sense of "Earth" which came first was the sense of "soil", so our planet is really just called "Soil". It's interesting to think about the process by which our ancestors figured out that "earth" wasn't just the substance underneath their feet, it was also a place.