Why is an oven called a range?

[azasadny]

I like how dog people refer to female dogs as a "*****", and then ALWAYS say "you know, we call female dos "*****es"... Wouldn't it be more efficient to just call them "female dogs" and then not have to offer up the "translation"?

[azasadny]

I should have typed "B1tch"....

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Etymology is an interest of mine...

Entomology is indeed interesting. There's software out there, similar to the various programs for tracing one's gynecology. Beware pre-1970 stuff though, because it's full of inaccuracies and bugs (grace hoppers, I think).

Example:

"A common myth about the kangaroo's English name is that "kangaroo" was a Guugu Yimithirr phrase for "I don't understand you." According to this legend, Lieutenant Cook and naturalist Sir Joseph Banks were exploring the area when they happened upon the animal. They asked a nearby local what the creatures were called. The local responded "Kangaroo", meaning "I don't understand you", which Cook took to be the name of the creature. The Kangaroo myth was debunked in the 1970s by linguist John B. Haviland in his research with the Guugu Yimithirr people."

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by azasadny

I should have typed "B1tch"....

The black b!tch that lives next door to me had me up all night last night. I never knew Labs barked that much.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by azasadny

If those little candy dots used in baking are called "non-pariels", what are "pariels"?

pariels are those which are not non.

[onlycafe]

Originally Posted by DARISC

Entomology is indeed interesting. There's software out there, similar to the various programs for tracing one's gynecology.

only if you're a girl.

[VaSteve]

Quote de 74-911

A better question (to me anyway) is why some call a chest of drawers called a dresser ???

A dresser is a double column of drawers that can be used to...dress a child on.



A chest of drawers is a taller single column of drawers.



At least that's what I was told.

What is a bureau then?

[Rednine11]

ok I'll play

Why are the ones on your butt called Hemorrhoids and the ones in space are called ASSteroids???????

Wouldn't it make more sense if it were the other way around ???????????

[MBAtarga]

The comic Gallagher had dozens of these things...

Why do they call them buildings ? Shouldn't they be called builts ?

[dafischer]

I know that people can be disgruntled, but what the helll is gruntle?

[djmcmath]

Originally Posted by kaisen

Why is a couch sometimes called a davenport?

Same reason we call individually wrapped sterilized self-stick bandages "bandaids." As I understand it, Davenport made a lot of well-known couches, and it became a household word which seems to have survived the company.

Makes me wonder. Will our grandkids be mystified that we say "google" when we mean "look for?"

Dan

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by djmcmath

...As I understand it, Davenport made a lot of well-known couches, and it became a household word which seems to have survived the company...

Also:

Candido Jacuzzi

The Earl of Sandwich

The Earl of Cardigan

Thomas Crapper

Jules Leotard

Amelia Bloomer

Rudolf Diesel

George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

Vyacheslav Molotov

Uziel Gal

Ferdinanand Von Zeppelin

Giuseppe Zamboni

General Motors,

The list goes on...

[Tyson Schmidt]

Originally Posted by azasadny

If those little candy dots used in baking are called "non-pariels", what are "pariels"?

Everything else?

[jdbunda]

Why do you drive on a parkway, but park in a driveway?

-George Carlin

[tcar]

Originally Posted by jdbunda

Why do you drive on a parkway, but park in a driveway?

-George Carlin

That's 3 times in 2 pages for this one... well, 4 now.

[Embraer]

Why do you drive on a parkway, but park in a driveway?

[teenerted1]

a dog is a male canine
a b1tch is a female canine.
i don't want to know what a female dog canine looks like

[Normy]

Why do you call a "wheel" a "rim" and vice-verseh-

N!