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somnolentsuggestions

hmm. hm. think i will spend my entire life devoted to creating art and being as kind as i possibly can

kingnervous696

And picking up cool sticks I find

somnolentsuggestions

INCREDIBLY VALID addition. thank u

catchymemes

theskabouncer

We got another one

adulthoodisokay

sourdough really do be like that

mossworm

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great-tweets

wait WHAT

derinthescarletpescatarian

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

reverberereration

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.

priestessamy

I love etymology!!!!!

madlori

The word “blog” is another example. It’s a rebracket and subsequent shortening of “web log.”

Another good one is alcoholic (comes from “alcohol” and the suffic “ic” but has been rebracketed such that the suffix “holic” is used to indicate affinity for other things - chocoholic, etc).

altair-ibn-la-booty

My son saw a bug on the ceiling for the first time

kleeklutch

parakeet

god pigeons have such good coos. theyre like horoorororo. i love it. it vibrates in the chambers of my heart and awakens my soul from a slumber that was far, far too long. horoorororo