Not actually a shower thought, saw an old document that labeled it air-port. I don’t think I would have ever made the connection.
(I’ve found people can be rude about word breakdowns, but I’m posting it anyway. Be better.)
Dog food is food for a dog. Wtf is this?
Be better.
peanut butter is butter made from peanuts
The queen of England is dead
Old English is the version of English from linger ago, hence it’s old!
I once saw sweet n sour sauce in a French supermarket, “sauce aigre-doux”
I looked up aigre to see what it meant and right enough, it just means sour.
At that point it clicked that French for wine is “vin” so sour wine is vin aigre
Or vinegar
I had the same kind of brain fart shower thought about the refrigerator brand Frigidaire.
Frigid+air
The air is cold.
I was in my 30s.
wait until you find out about USB port
You mean how you plug it in, oops wrong way…flip it…no, right the first time, flip it again, ah, there it goes!
Even USB-C
USB-c? Buddy, that might be a you problem
USB-C these nuts all up in ya business
USB-Aggravating.
Or the washing machine.
I live in Phoenix, our airport is called sky harbor…
Pretty sure they did that on purpose
No shit?
Then the word alphabet comes from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek writing system.
If we had gotten the word directly from the Phoenicians, we might probably call it alephbeth instead.Just a couple of nights ago it hit me that the word geometry comes from Geo: Earth and metron: measure.
Etymologies can suddenly snap into focus things that have been right there in front of our eyes all our lives, but never thought to notice.
Algebra is an Arabic word. Al-gebra. Presummably it translates to “The Pain”
You are going to hate Trigonometry and Calculus
I’ve never felt more like the smartest dumbass for realizing one on my own.
And why isn’t a train station called a rail port?
Missed opportunity to keep it all tidily labeled similarly, if you ask me.Train station and bus station. Why isn’t it called boat station and plane station?
Because a station is a place you pull up to an leave going the same direction, and a port is a place you enter and then go back out the same way.
Airplanes come down to a port, then go back up.
Boats come into a port, then back out to sea.
Buses come into a station, then go along their way. Same as trains.
Buses come from a road and then go back to the same road, so this line of reasoning makes no sense.
The buses never leave the road. The station is on the road.
When buses pull into spaces, then back out, it’s called a bus port.
I don’t know what bus stations you’ve been to, but every bus station I’ve been to was something like an airport. Everything else has been a bus stop.
Don’t come here with logical arguments! :(
Hmm there is rail yard just like ship yard, though I think they’re used a little differently.
Funnily enough in Russian the word for train station is Vauxhall… spelt Russian. People say that Russian engineers studying in London mistook the name of a specific underground station - Vauxhall - as the generic word for station and imported it into their language before anyone realised the mistake.
TIL
… like a seaport, but for the air, dude. Sea. Air. Dude. <Toking noises>
I am perfectly WHELMED by this discovery.
After years of learning Spanish my brother pointed out that the word for umbrella, paraguas, is simply “for water”. Similar to how parasol is “for sun”.
So obvious, but somehow my brain missed it.
The reason people are rude about word breakdowns is they assumed you to be a native English speaker, and these should seem obvious.
The internet is full of Americans, unfortunately.
I think it’s the native speakers that don’t break it down. You just take the word as a word because you learned it so young.
See? This is what happens when I assume you to be non-American. When someone assumes me to be an American, I’m apparently also the wrong one.
