Also look up the origin of the word Sandwich
Also look up the origin of the word Sandwich
Also, it's only a true gargoyle if it comes from the gargling region of France. Anything else is just a sparkling grotesque.
146Gargouille.
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Etymology of the word gargoyle, for anyone else who read the linked list in its entirety and found that gargoyle is not on it:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/gargoyle
Rather than the sound of water, it seems to refer to the throat of the statue through which water passes, which sounds like gargle in several languages. Several sites say it's an onomatopoeia for the statue gargling water but I can't find that reference specifically, except that the root words for gargle from Latin might be an onomatopoeia for the sound of gargling.
If the statue is purely ornamental without the function for water to pass through it, it's called a grotesque, chimera, or boss, so obviously I'm going to call them all bosses now.
63Garganta means throat in Spanish, so I've learnt something about the origins of that word now :)
8Like a boss!
1Haha, I really want to show someone around New York or some larger city and point up and just be like "and you can see four bosses up there" and then get to explain what I mean.
I wonder if those lions in front of libraries are bosses too, or if bosses have to be rooftop statues?
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Sandwiches are named after a Welsh peasant dish that originally consisted of witch meat between two bricks of baked sand. It was terrible and offered little nutritional value, but was very popular due to the great availability of witch meat and lack of any real alternatives for nourishment.
62I don't know enough Welsh to refute this
33Additional fun fact: "sandwich" is a degraded version of the original Welsh spelling, which is "syynndwrrrccchhchch," and which was originally pronounced "klerb."
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Sandwiches are named after the Earl of Sandwich right? Have there been further developments?
46He’s still dead.
70Thanks but
Next time please use the spoiler tag, sheesh 🙄
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My headcanon is that Earl of Sandwich had a dream one night where some mystery people from Sahara, the Sand Witches, showed up, and went like "yesss, a slice of bread, yesss, now put some stuff on it, yesss, maybe more slices of bread and more stuff and so on but that is optional. But we must go. Bye!" And thus was born a simple delicacy known worldwide.
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The sandwich is named for the sound of gargling dry white bread and overly processed deli meats that sandwich eaters made before the invention of garlic aoli.
37Anyone else picture a drooling Homer Simpson?
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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.'
29Squid is a perfect description of a squid though. So whoever came up with that one, nailed it!
10There 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.
5I could've swore dog came from the old Scottish word dug. Which was another word for dog
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not true, squid come from squyrde
0I 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.
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I'd heard the sandwich story before, but had no clew about some of the others!
7Surely, the clew is the corner of the sail where the sheet attaches, but that isn't important right now
10"Stop calling me Shirley."
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but had no clew about some of the others!
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ostrachise
Huh? I thoght ancient greeks played with the idea of democracy but were mostly monarchistic?
7ostracheese
5Mmmm. Cheese from ostrich milk
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Athens was a democracy, at least for a little bit
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Totally interesting until you look it up to find there's no truth to it.
-12It's kinda true, but less exciting than the person made it sound.
gargoyle (n.)
"grotesque carved waterspout," connected to the gutter of a building to throw down water clear of the wall ... from Old French gargole
gargle (v.)
1520s, from French gargouiller "to gurgle, bubble" (14c.), from Old French gargole "throat, waterspout"
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