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A pancake is a cake you make in a pan.
It broke my mind when I learned that one
..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.
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.
I never knew those two either.
Love the helico-pter one. Of course!
rebracketing.
TIL
Well, I'm there with you buddy. This is the first I see it.
Wait until you hear about butterflies and dragonflies.
Butterflies, flies that you make with butter.
Just like the way a snowman is a man made of snow.
So a woman is made of wo(e)?
Woah, man!
Have you heard about asswipes
please don't tell me I been using them wrong
wtfffff
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