PYF Historical Fun Fact: (USER LOSETH POSTYNG PRIVILYGES FOR FOUR AND TWENTY HOURS)

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The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite: Carefully Curated > PYF Historical Fun Fact: (USER LOSETH POSTYNG PRIVILYGES FOR FOUR AND TWENTY HOURS)

flatluigi: Apr 23, 2008; here come the planes

my favorite little etymology thing that still manages to gently caress people up somehow is that helicopter isn't heli + copter, it's helico + pter -- 'spiral wing'

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flatluigi: Apr 23, 2008; here come the planes

Kassad posted:

Ah so that's (probably) why in French, "hélico" is shorthand for "hélicoptère"

well, yes, but the french word came first (it was coined in french out of those greek components)

# ¿ Jun 6, 2020 15:10

flatluigi: Apr 23, 2008; here come the planes

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

What do you call this guy?

Where I'm from it's "Ted Cruz."

"fun" fact that fish actually looks perfectly normal underwater and what this image is is basically post-explosive-decompression

# ¿ Sep 7, 2020 01:30

flatluigi: Apr 23, 2008; here come the planes

are you okay

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