I wonder sometimes what would be the oldest extant word based on technology no longer in use. Taping an interview? Dialing someone? https://twitter.com/hels/status/679059633949011970 …
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Sabotage! Industrial workers no longer wear wooden shoes, or “sabots” in French, that they can throw and disrupt the machinery.
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Small FYI, the throw-shoes-in-machinery etymology is false, though the link to the wooden shoes is correct.pic.twitter.com/itTJKoBoWv
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Thanks!!!
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