• _stranger_@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    This comic is so old, the general discourse hadn’t arrived at a consensus on car horn onomatopoeia. That’s kinda neat.

    • everett
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      4 months ago

      Yep! I noticed something like this in an early-20th-century book I’ve been reading: the “hello” word we take for granted was spelled “halloa.” I’ve been meaning to look more into the history of that one.