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What's some common knowledge that you just found out recently? (lemmy.world)

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[-] hushable@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago

A pancake is a cake you make in a pan.

It broke my mind when I learned that one

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

..and when you take a detour, you are getting off your original tour. (Tour de France, tour of the countryside, etc)

Hence, why you de-tour.

Did everyone work this out at first glance? The etymology of 'detour' took me way too long.

[-] oneiros@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 9 months ago

Along these lines, I recently learned:

Painstakingly is pains + takingly (as in "took great pains"), not pain + stakingly.

Helicopter is helico + pter ("spiral wing"), not heli + copter.

In linguistics, this phenomenon is called rebracketing.

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I never knew those two either.

Love the helico-pter one. Of course!

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

rebracketing.

TIL

[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Well, I'm there with you buddy. This is the first I see it.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 9 months ago

Wait until you hear about butterflies and dragonflies.

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Butterflies, flies that you make with butter.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

Just like the way a snowman is a man made of snow.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

So a woman is made of wo(e)?

[-] SeabassDan@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Woah, man!

[-] Elderos@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Have you heard about asswipes

[-] hushable@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

please don't tell me I been using them wrong

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

wtfffff

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