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Also look up the origin of the word Sandwich (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The weird thing about the origin of the word sandwich is that everyone had been eating them for centuries, but one day the Earl of Sandwich orders one and they say, "it takes too long to say bread-and-meat, let's just call it a sandwich."

By the way, no one knows for sure the etymology of 'squid.'

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There are a bunch of animal names like that. Notably "dog" and "chicken" just showed up without any real source. In middle English we have hounds, and fowls/cocks/hens. It's strange for domestic animals that have been around forever to get renamed afor no apparent reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Huh, I just assumed chicken was chick+hen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I could've swore dog came from the old Scottish word dug. Which was another word for dog

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

not true, squid come from squyrde

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what "squyrde" is, but it doesn't show up in any etymological source I've ever seen.

For example:

squid (n.)

"ten-armed marine mollusk, cuttlefish," 1610s, a word of unknown origin. Klein's sources suggest it is a sailors' variant of squirt and so called for the "ink" it jets.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/squid

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Thats where squyrde comes from

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Squyrde comes from Squirtle