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Another questionable etymology I guess: apricot, long assumed to come from the same root as 'precocious' due to its early ripening. However English had it 'abrecock' and it seems to be from a lineage through old French then old Spanish down from al-barquq, an Arabic word for several in the Prunus genus. This makes more sense given that in Argentine Spanish and all Portuguese it's referred to as 'damasco' as in Damascus. In Spanish it's the even more definitive albariciquero. I suppose the question is did it become apricot simply from linguistic shift or did it converge to sound like precocious because of the coincidence?
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Besesoth posted:I'd guess that most of the US could identify "sneakers" as rubber-soled athletic shoes, but apparently the more accepted term outside of the Northeast (and, weirdly, southern Florida) is "tennis shoes". Not that it's either here nor there, but in the UK they're most commonly referred to as trainers or sports shoes.
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syscall girl posted:I'll have a Pepsi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoF_a0-7xVQ
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Receipt, like the noun, is a past participle of the verb receive. And likewise 'reception.'
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KoRMaK posted:how much better a compressor effect makes my guitar playing sound Depends what you're playing though?
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Flyinglemur posted:He clearly said he was playing guitar. Try and keep up. But what kind? There's acoustic, electric, acousto-electric, 6-string, 7-string, 8-string, 12-string, etc.! More seriously, I want to specifically know every hand-crafted detail of the specific guitar they are playing. Was it made at 12 past 5, or 14 past 5? It matters.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Especially since the entire history of England consists of being conquered by everyone all the time so you'd get huge amounts of different (sometimes repeating) foreign influences. It's completely possible that a few dozen Middle Dutchians conquered England several times but no-one noticed because the next wave was already on its way. Well, we probably inherited it via the Germans.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Wow. I never realized we use peanut butter as a cleaning agent. Hopefully not vice-versa, although it would explain the current economic woes.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Tell her Billy Corgan and Karl Pilkington are not the same person and she'll believe it. (Of course they are the same person but The difference is Karl Pilkington only pretends to be a burbling moron.
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Hugh Malone posted:Cheechero? Latin c was only ever pronounced k. Kik-er-oh. Likewise Caesar is pronounced "Kaiser" hence that being a term for a leader in German. The reason for the confusion is because terminal sigma, ς, looks like a c but, being sigma, is pronounced s. This is why Cyrillic's C is a Latin S. Hence the Soviet Union being the CC (Sovietskiy Soyuz) and USSR the CCCP (Soyuz Soviets Socialist Respubliks, to spell it like a heathen who can't speak Russian). P being R because of rho.
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Jerry Cotton posted:That is not by any stretch of the imagination "the reason for the confusion". Silence you heathen Finn.  Your country isn't even real.  Weembles posted:There's also an interesting theory about how Etruscans spoke revolving around the letter "C". This also makes sense given how Ankara was historically called Angora by the Romans, suggesting a kinda k-g hybrid.
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extradite THIS! posted:If this confuses you, let me tell you about the Japanese language which is basically entirely based on understanding the context of what's being said because you can leave out like 90% of a sentence 黑れ
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If that blows your mind then consider that the Greater Tokyo Area is slightly smaller than the New York metropolitan area but has nearly double the population.
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The_White_Crane posted:
At the risk of sounding like I'm making fun of you, this is a pretty common term in sports/fitness circles. Aerobic vs. anaerobic exercise.
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I mean, I'd been believing he'd been piercing the lid with the long end then pulling it out and shoving the short end through the hole and drinking with the pointy long end in his mouth, so this is at least an improvement.
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bell jar posted:can just put the pointy end into that corner and suck bud that's not at all a requirement for someone to suck
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I mean I guess I've never had any problem finishing a juice box? I admit it's been over 2 decades since I had one.
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From what I recall (and it's been a long time since I had a Capri-Sun either) I would put it on a table and try and flatten the top as best as possible and then push down on it with the straw, rotating it a little until it punctured through.
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Anything other than folk songs and extremely embarrassing Finnish metal is a hot mess when you add an accordion.
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bony tony posted:That's a terrible thing to say about Weird Al Yankovic. Comrade Al is a man of the people and thus counts as folk, even when he's technically not folk.
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That is an extremely cursed dish.
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They're both non-volatile memory but yes, SSDs are flash memory storage, compared to HDDs and their magnetic storage.
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Proteus Jones posted:Yeah, I think you shouldn't drink fluids for 30 mins after either to give it time to work. At least I remember a dentist telling me this (that part could be BS) I was told the same thing on the understanding that after brushing your enamel is vulnerable while it rebuilds from the 'trauma' of the brushing, so eating damages it way worse during that period.
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Skrooby Doobie Doo
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