What about similar oddities in English?
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Edit: it’s to its in the title. Damn autocorrect.
What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/193/ (link found by [email protected]))
Edit: it’s to its in the title. Damn autocorrect.
And German has a word for it: Blei
That would explain why a pencil, which contains a “lead” (actually a polymer or graphite now) is Bleistift
Bly in Swedish. But we add some weirdness to the Bly part so a “lead pencil” is blyertspenna (“penna” meaning pencil). I can’t think of another word where that specific addiction is used, and I have no idea what it means.
I’ve looked it up and “blyerts” means “black lead, graphite” from German “Bleierz” (lead-ore).
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