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Fake Etymology

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Putting the Amor in Amortization since 1066.

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Catagélastos@catagelastosSep 7
The Old English diminutive suffix is -incel... So the word for manlet would be manincel... you have got to be kidding me...
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Iliad translation into Zoomer where θυμός is translated as Cortisol
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Vessel Of Spirit@VesselOfSpiritJan 27
it's common for russian politicians to name themselves after materials. the best known example is stalin (man of steel), but there's also lenin (man of linen), putin (man of pewter), yeltsin (man of jelly), etc.
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Tines New Roman.
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The Anglish word for "Papism" is "Daddydom"
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And people from Phoenix, Arizona are Phoenicians.
Fake Etymology (@FakeEtymology) profile pictureFake Etymology@FakeEtymology15 May 2025
People from Albany are Albanian.
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Dodo@Mechanical_Dodo8 Aug 2025
women : men :: wombats : bats
Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) profile pictureWilfred Reilly
@wil_da_beast6306 Aug 2025
What opinion about WOMEN would get you in this position?
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niplav@niplav_site5 Aug 2025
Does the etymology of "yeet" bottom out in PIE "*(H)yeh₁-"
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Amazon's "Alexa" comes from "al-Aqsa", the Islamic name for the Temple Mount. Every time you speak to the machine you invoke the name of the Farthest Mosque, a ritual required to stir the djinn awake
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Replying to @eigenrobot
*klek >hlahjaną > laugh > lol > kek is remarkable
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They pretend wigcing has no descendants in Modern English because they don't want you to know viking is cognate with wigger
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Grok says the term Groyper is derived from a combination of the words "Gryp" and "Pÿr," which roughly translate to "R*ping Fire" in Gaelic. Can anyone confirm?
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alice maz
@alicemazzy22 Apr 2024
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"worth his salt" and the word "salary" refer to the payment of roman soldiers in the commodity, which was much rarer and more valuable prior to the mediterranean salination event
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Wylfċen
@wylfcen15 Dec 2023
“Nei” is the word for no among both Scandinavians and horses. This allows us to reconstruct the existence of a Proto-Scando-Hippic language, or “Old Horse,” spoken roughly 94 million years ago, when the most recent common ancestor of Scandinavians and horses lived.
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Tim Rooney@tjrwriting18 Jan 2024
“Li-berry” is actually a corruption of “Le Barry,” an early Norman king whose biggest legacy was his massive collection of books
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Shakespeare added 1700 words to the English language. One of them, "being 'ratioed," comes from the audience's unanimous support for Hamlet over Horatio, when Horatio expresses close-minded skepticism, and Hamlet delivers his "more things in heaven and earth" banger.
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you all: “blue pills red pills game theory altruism prisoners dilemma stag hunt Nash equilibrium can emotions be rationa—” me: “what if ‘allegory’ were short for ‘alligator story’”
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Misha
@drethelin12 Dec 2022
You might think it’s modern slang but actually people have been writing about he/him pussy for a long time – at Queens, NY
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Amazing how much the province of Littelösterreich looks like a smaller Austria
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okay actually the full phrase is "memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris" which roughly means "remember, homo, you are dust, and to dust you shall return"
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