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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

..and when you take a detour, you are getting off your original tour. (Tour de France, tour of the countryside, etc)

Hence, why you de-tour.

Did everyone work this out at first glance? The etymology of 'detour' took me way too long.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Well, I'm there with you buddy. This is the first I see it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Along these lines, I recently learned:

Painstakingly is pains + takingly (as in "took great pains"), not pain + stakingly.

Helicopter is helico + pter ("spiral wing"), not heli + copter.

In linguistics, this phenomenon is called rebracketing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

rebracketing.

TIL

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I never knew those two either.

Love the helico-pter one. Of course!