And then there is Admiral Horthy, dictator of landlocked Hungary during World War II.
Yes, but that was so long ago that at that time the two parts were “helic” and “opter”. In a few years, the break will have migrated further right to become “helicopt” and “er”.
“Helicopter” comes from the two words “helicopter” meaning “helicopter” and “” meaning.
Sorry, you forgot the second half: “would be so cool to get picked up from school in!”
By the bye, anyone else feel a bit shallow for looking into moving to Nebraska, just to increase the odds of becoming an Admiral?
Let me know if you move here and do good deeds, I’d be proud to nominate a fellow Doper, errr, Admiral.
Thanks, that’s sweet, but we’d move to be closer to family.
Which right now is on a coast. West (CA), East (NYC)… or North (MN).
The word “mailbag” comes from the Old French word “male” meaning “bag” and the Old Norse word “baggi” meaning “bag”.
I for one, never knew about the origins of “helicopter,” so ixnay on the ockingmay.
Yes, the OP doesn’t say you can’t stumble across it in this thread.
This could become more than an IRF at some point in the future:
While some readers joked about the robot’s adventures, one feared for its safety in the great outdoors, pointing out that “nature abhors a vacuum”.
However, much to everyone’s relief, the device was found nestled under a hedge on Friday afternoon by a (human) hotel cleaner sprucing up the front drive.
It was dusted off and “is now back sitting happily on a shelf with the rest of its robot vacuum family”, the hotel confirmed.
“Sitting happily on a shelf,” my ass. You can’t fool me, this was a dress rehearsal for the Robot Apocalypse.
I thought it was interesting that both parts of “mailbag” mean “bag”. YMMV, of course.
It seems a lot like being a Kentucky Colonel. (which, for some reason, I really want)
Surely a mailbag is simply a bag for carrying mail (letters)?
It’s correct. The usage of “mail” meaning delivered letters and parcels is secondary to the original meaning of the bag used to carry the items being delivered.
The archaic meaning of ‘mayle’ or ‘male’ or ‘mail’ may have been a bag, but it later came to mean a packet of letters. It’s in that sense that it’s combined with ‘bag’, long after the original meaning of mail had fallen out of use.
It’s not secondary. It’s the primary meaning today and for the past few centuries. The old meaning doesn’t exist any more.
I always found it amusing that in the US you mail a letter with the post office (postal service) while in the UK, you post a letter with the Royal Mail.
Just saw this tweet, pretty blown away by the fact that Frank Lloyd Wright and Stalin both had the same son in law, William Wesley Peters, and both his wives were called Svetlana!
Hm. I wonder what Ayn Rand thought about that (Wright was a hero of hers (and the basis for Howard Roark)).
Actually, she started writing The Fountainhead before she even heard of FLW.
Thanks - I did not know that.