"If I fits, I sits" is fitting.
Interesting how the main verb (fit) has barely any known etymology. Wiktionary lists a potential Middle English ancestor, perhaps an Icelandic cognate, and... that's it. And it's semantically a mess.
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"If I fits, I sits" is fitting.
Interesting how the main verb (fit) has barely any known etymology. Wiktionary lists a potential Middle English ancestor, perhaps an Icelandic cognate, and... that's it. And it's semantically a mess.