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birokaput:

conspicuouslad:

just-shower-thoughts:

It took me almost 16 years to realize “can” is short for “canister”.

Anything you canister do, I canister do better

it’s really not though, it comes from Middle English “canne” and has tons of relatives in all the other Germanic languages

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Etymology is amazing.

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