navigaero:

cyrodiil-burns:

sarallis:

108echoes:

derinthemadscientist:

great-tweets:

wait WHAT

Wait, so… does -copter come *from* helicopter? 

Yep! This is called rebracketing. Another famous example would be “-burger”: the original food item is named after the German city, [Hamburg]+[er], but got semantically reinterpreted as [ham]+[burger]. Now it’s used as a suffix indicating a type of sandwich.

@kompanie-mutter

Tell me this is some kind of joke

Also, painstaking isn’t a combination of pain-staking, but actually pains-taking