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@grammargirl's interview with Doug Harper of etymonline.com is well worth a listen;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nswr96XGt7k

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl/

They talk briefly about the origins of the site. Where Harper mentions how much easier it was to establish a website as a landmark when the web was new, and how crowded the landscape has become since.

#GrammarGirl #Etymonline #DougHarper #WebHistory

@grammargirl's interview with Doug Harper of etymonline.com is well worth a listen;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nswr96XGt7k

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl/

They talk briefly about the origins of the site. Where Harper mentions how much easier it was to establish a website as a landmark when the web was new, and how crowded the landscape has become since.

#GrammarGirl #Etymonline #DougHarper #WebHistory

#TIL that the cowboy term "buckeroo" is believed to be an anglicization of the Spanish term vaquero, meaning cowherd. From the Latin "vacca", meaning cow;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaquero

From which we also get the word "vaccine";

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

Fuck I love #Wikipedia and #Etymonline : )

#westerns #cowboys

#TIL that the cowboy term "buckeroo" is believed to be an anglicization of the Spanish term vaquero, meaning cowherd. From the Latin "vacca", meaning cow;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaquero

From which we also get the word "vaccine";

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

Fuck I love #Wikipedia and #Etymonline : )

#westerns #cowboys

🎶 one of these things is not like the other ones 🎶

#EtymOnline #DieHardIsAChristmasMovie

@linuzifer nur falsch, ok; #TILNOT

κυβερ != Cyber = Steuer‽
κυβερν != Regierung
κυβερνή != Herrscher
κυβερνήτης != Gouverneur != Steuermann

allerdingens:
"Als eigenständiges Substantiv cyber ist es seit 1998 als Kurzform von cybersex belegt (das wiederum seit 1995 nachweisbar ist)."

or in english:
"As a stand-alone noun, cyber, it is attested by 1998 as short for cybersex (which is attested by 1995)" #etymonline

#cybersexsince98attested95 :awesome:

@clacke and from the relevant #Etymonline #etymology page:

«1889, socca, later socker (1891), soccer (1895), originally university slang (with jocular formation -er (3)), from a shortened form of Assoc., abbreviation of association in Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football); compare rugger.
An unusual method of formation, but those who did it perhaps shied away from making a name out of the first three letters of Assoc. Compare 1890s English schoolboy slang leccer, from lecture (n.).»
https://www.etymonline.com/word/soccer

@clacke and from the relevant #Etymonline #etymology page:

«1889, socca, later socker (1891), soccer (1895), originally university slang (with jocular formation -er (3)), from a shortened form of Assoc., abbreviation of association in Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football); compare rugger.
An unusual method of formation, but those who did it perhaps shied away from making a name out of the first three letters of Assoc. Compare 1890s English schoolboy slang leccer, from lecture (n.).»
https://www.etymonline.com/word/soccer

#xkcd: #Etymonline

https://xkcd.com/2722/