Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 5 months agoWhat's an interesting etymology for a common term?message-squaremessage-square132fedilinkarrow-up1203arrow-down11
arrow-up1202arrow-down1message-squareWhat's an interesting etymology for a common term?Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square132fedilink
minus-squareDrewmeister@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up68·5 months agoI don’t think anyone has mentioned “helicopter” yet. It’s not heli and copter like you might think. It’s helico like helix meaning spiral and pter like pterodactyl meaning winged.
minus-squareBubs12@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·5 months agoDoes that mean it has a silent P and we’ve all been pronouncing it wrong this whole time?
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·5 months agoLet’s take the helicotter.
minus-squareJonnyprophet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoI’ve always called them helo-cooters. You mean you haven’t?
minus-squareZüri@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoGermans have a word for that “Schraubflügler” /jk
minus-squarespizzat2@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoI always like to think of “Hubschrauber” as “hübsch Räuber”.
I don’t think anyone has mentioned “helicopter” yet. It’s not heli and copter like you might think. It’s helico like helix meaning spiral and pter like pterodactyl meaning winged.
Does that mean it has a silent P and we’ve all been pronouncing it wrong this whole time?
Let’s take the helicotter.
Hee-licko-tear
I’ve always called them helo-cooters. You mean you haven’t?
Germans have a word for that “Schraubflügler”
/jk
I always like to think of “Hubschrauber” as “hübsch Räuber”.