The House of Olivier EU@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWhich word do you dislike most?message-squaremessage-square113linkfedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down14
arrow-up141arrow-down1message-squareWhich word do you dislike most?The House of Olivier EU@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square113linkfedilink
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minus-squarerichieadler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThe sandwich bit is nonsense, given that it owes his name to the Earl of Sandwich AFAIK.
minus-squareStovetop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThe Earl of Sandwich invents the sophisticated breaddystack only for the plebs to just refer to it by its inventor. Imagine inventing the morphodynamic semioscillating inverter only for the uneducated commons to call it a “Jimothy” or something.
minus-squareTaco2112@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoAnd who would ever use a childish word like “movie”? It’s called a moving picture.
minus-squareThe House of Olivier EU@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoIf you want to go deeper about that word: The earliest known use of the noun walkie-talkie is in the 1930s. OED’s earliest evidence for walkie-talkie is from 1939, in the San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, Texas). walkie-talkie
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The sandwich bit is nonsense, given that it owes his name to the Earl of Sandwich AFAIK.
The Earl of Sandwich invents the sophisticated breaddystack only for the plebs to just refer to it by its inventor. Imagine inventing the morphodynamic semioscillating inverter only for the uneducated commons to call it a “Jimothy” or something.
And who would ever use a childish word like “movie”? It’s called a moving picture.
If you want to go deeper about that word:
The earliest known use of the noun walkie-talkie is in the 1930s.
OED’s earliest evidence for walkie-talkie is from 1939, in the San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, Texas).
walkie-talkie