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#etymology

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Early morning pondering:

At least in the USA, if someone behind you is driving too close, people often say someone is on their tail.

I’m guessing “tail” is short for “tailpipe”, and that it isn’t instead an offensive or derogatory term.

So what do we call this phenomenon if you are driving an EV? 🧐

A whole new lexicon may have to be built for operating sustainable vehicles!

Sometimes I get a #word stuck in my head so I have to go look it up

Today's is "#Jingoism"

It's #etymology is facinating: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingoism

It originated in a song sang by the #British during the Russo-Turkish war of 1877

> We don't want to fight but by #Jingo if we do
> We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too

It came to symbolize national chauvanism

The phrase "by jingo" is a "minced oath" to avoid saying "by god", so it shares a lot of meaning with "bigot"

en.wikipedia.orgJingoism - Wikipedia

I grew up in Malaysia, so for me, "yam" can mean any of three different things...

Colocasia esculenta a.k.a. taro, is "yam" in Malaysia
Oxalis tuberosa a.k.a oca is "yam" in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Ipomoea batatas a.k.a. kūmara a.k.a. sweet potato is "yam" in North America.
#yam #food #etymology

#Etymology
Girls employed to dance in clubs, often in short skirts & high boots, were gogo dancers.

They were named for a Hollywood club (founded 1964) called Whisky a Go Go.

Which was named after a bar in the French town of Juan-les-Pins, Whisky à GoGo.

The club got its name from a film called Whisky à Gogo.

Whisky à GoGo was the French translation of Whisky Galore, a Scottish comedy film. (Gogo means "galore.")

So you see, if you explore anything deeply enough it leads back to Scotland!

Anyone know when the word "master" gained the meaning "The original of a document or of a recording"?

Was it used that way pre-audio-recording? I can't find any instances of it used that way before audio recordings of the early 20th century, but it's common enough in other senses of the word that there's too much noise (heh) for me to believe I did an OK job searching.

If not, is there a story to how it took on that meaning in the context of audio?