>Stockholm syndrome is named after the Norrmalmstorg robbery

>>1816977

The term "I'm just pulling your leg" comes from a time in Britain when hangings were common for all sorts of crimes. The Bloody Code demanded the death penalty for virtually any crime that you could think of, so in some cities you could expect multiple public hangings per day. Sometimes, somebody would hang but their neck would not break (this was due to the hangman using too short of a rope). When this happened, the condemned person would be left choking in midair until they finally died, which could take a while.

So when this happened, the friends of the condemned would run to the gallows and pull the victim's legs downward to make them die more quickly, sparing him/her the pain of having to wait for a slow death.

>>1817006
Holy fuck.

i feel like I know some but now that I want to type it out I cant think of any

>Go the whole nine yards

During World War II, the fighter pilots were equipped with nine yards of ammunition. When they ran out, it meant that they had tried their best at fighting off the target with the entirety of their ammunition.

>>1817006
reads like the kind of shit you'd find in a chain email in 1997 desu

>>1816977
The word "jubilee" has anti-semitic origins. In Gilded Age America it was common for rich WASPs to hire a "Jew Billy" clown dressed like a stereotypical Jew to dance and amuse people at birthday parties.

The word OP stems from the middle ages. In Northern Italian guilds it was common to own a little beta male to fuck in the boipussi. They were called Ope but as English adopted the word it became OP

>>1816977

>Heads up!

Started off as a cry to soldiers when facing incoming artillery. In the very early days of cannon fire, it was more shock and terror than actual effect, and its primary role was to scatter a formation rather than outright slaughter. It was an admonition to keep formation, despite the oncoming fire.

Well, artillery kept getting better, and eventually, keeping close cohesion was a bad idea. The words stayed the same, but the action became what we now associate with it, that is, to duck and find cover.


>>1817615

I'm pretty sure Jubilee has usage in the Bible itself. Some sort of Jewish celebration year.

the term "square meal" comes from the 18th century british navy when sailors would get one hot meal a day, usually a meat gruel, that would be served on a square wooden plate.

>>1817648
>more shock and terror than actual effect

the shock and terror is because of the actual effect.

The word Robot came from Karl Capek, a Czech playwright that was a pioneer in science fiction. He wrote a play during WWI called "R.U.R., which was a group of mechanized monsters revolting against their maker. The Czech term for work or drudgery was robota, and so Capek shortened his characters to be robots.

>>1817285

It's true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfJ0I9Qsea8

>>1816977
>During this standoff, the victims became emotionally attached to their captors, rejected assistance from government officials at one point, and even defended their captors

Holy shit, it's like being a cuck is part of the swedish genetic makeup

The term sniper actually derives from the name of an African bird.

Yes, there is a real bird called a snipe.

Because it was so small and fast, only an expert marksman, a "sniper" could hit one.

The term commando comes from the groups of Dutch guerrillas that would harass British troops during the Boer Wars.

The word cretin comes from the middle French for Christian. The logic being that although the person is retarded, they are a child of god and deserve to be respected as a human being.

Moron, Imbecile and Idiot were all proper medical terms before people associated them with the mentally retarded and started using them as insults.

Within our own lifetimes this has happened to the term retarded. I already see kids calling each other "special needs"

>>1816977

'Liberal', in its political meaning, is a Spanish word.

>In Spain, the Liberales, the first group to use the liberal label in a political context,[18] fought for the implementation of the 1812 Constitution for decades. From 1820 to 1823, during the Trienio Liberal, King Ferdinand VII was compelled by the liberales to swear to uphold the Constitution. By the middle of the 19th century, liberal was used as a politicised term for parties and movements all over the world.

>>1817615
Jubilee is from Hebrew יובל (yovel) which means 50 years

Molotovs cocktail name for petrol bombs/firebombs stems from the winter war. When the soviets were bombing Finland, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov was claiming the bombs were actually food aid to the populace. As a sarcastic joke the Finns started to refer the bombs as bread baskets and the petrol bombs as cocktails to go with the bread.

>>1818206
Tangently related, the word "Cuck" or "Cuckold" refers to the habit of Cuckoo birds laying their eggs in another birds nest for them to take care of. The implications of this in human terms is rather obvious, as a man who is raising another's son, whether knowningly or not.

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>>1816977
The Chinese word for "Rifle" or any long gun is
枪 (qiāng). 枪 (qiāng) also means spear.

The reason why 枪 (qiāng) became both a word for spear and rifle is due to the fact that the first handheld firearms ever invented was a fire lance. A rocket with it's exhaust facing up front tied to a spear. Which the Chinese called 火枪 (Fire Spear). Eventually that same name was applied to handcannons, then muskets, and then eventually rifles. Then they dropped the "fire" altogether.

The modern Chinese word for spear today is 矛 (Máo). But 枪 (qiāng) is also acceptable as a word for spear via context, but is commonly used by the Chinese nowadays for long guns.
>滑膛枪 (Huátáng qiāng)- Literally "Smoothbore Long Gun." - Meaning Shotgun.
>步枪 Bùqiāng- Literally "Soldier's Long Gun"- meaning Assault Rifle.
>狙击枪 Jūjī qiāng - "Ambush Long Gun" meaning Sniper rifle
But then.
>长枪 Chángqiāng - "Long Spear." meaning Pike.

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>>1817615
>>1818584
>>1817648
Lovely jubilee

The Italian word for potato in the 1500s was "tartuffolo" or literally: "truffle like thingy". This was further corrupted into "Cartoufle" by the French and "Kartoffel" and similar by the Germans and various Slavs as it traveled north.

The French eventually started calling it the "pomme de terre" (Apple of the Earth) in the 1600s, while at the same time the Dutch and Germans called it variations of "Erdappel."

The Roman Empire derived its name from the city of Rome.

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Nobody knows why the cow laughs

>>1816977
ALS is more commonly known as Lou Gehrigs diesease, after the famous baseball player for the New York Yankees, who suffered from the diesease and made its presence more widely known among the general public in the 1920's.

>>1818955
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYFXOZN-L64

During WW1 massive bird flu epidemic spread across the world but due to wartime censorship this was kept under wraps. However when the king of neutral Spain fell ill with the flu it was coined as the Spanish Flu as wartime press limitations didn't apply in Spain.

>>1816977
Sweden
Yes

>>1818955
need a laughing cow gf

https://www.youtube.com/user/wordsoftheworld/videos

This Youtube channel exists, though its dead now, no new videos added.
Some interesting ones.

>>1819401
Thanks!

>>1818925
Potato is called "brambora" in Czech, which is derived from "Brandemburg" because of their similar mental capabilities.

>>1818206
It probably is. Look for the map of Swedish and Somalian descendants in the US

>>1818712

Massively underrated post.

>>1818925
Some dialects in Norway still call potatoes "jordeple" (earth apple), while apples are called "sodeple" (sweet apple). If you wanted more trivia knowledge

It's helico-pter (spiral/spinning wing - pter=wing, like in pterodactyl), not heli-copter.

>>1817721
>The Czech term for work or drudgery was robota

It's common to many Slavic languages, but the proto-Slavic source was "orbota", cognate with the German "Arbeit". Both are related to words for orphans (and slaves in the Slavic context) common to Indo-European languages in general (e.g. Latin orbus, Greek orphanos, Germanic arbaz...).

The related rob/rab is a word for "slave" in several languages (mostly Slavic but also Romanian).

The word "jew" derives from (you) from when the jews samefagged the imageboards of the ancient world.

The word "samefag" is incidentally derived from the sami people, who to the germanic scandinavians all looked like each other due to their asian phenotypes, thus when two things look alike they look "same"

>>1819451
I'd be more inclined to think it's because Prussians were their contact through which they learned of potato.

>>1818925
>Erdappel
I had a mate in this MMO called a similar thing, and he was dutch.
Interesting to find that out.

>>1817006
Then how come today that phrase means you're "just kidding" or indicates deception? I don't see how the phrase could mean that today if the origin is about hanging. Could you explain?

>>1819604
Con't
"The second origin theory has to do with executions by suspension hanging at Tyburn in England. It’s believed that people were occasionally hired to hang on to the victim’s legs to give them a quicker death. Suspension hanging typically results in a much slower death than long drop hanging, and the extra weight on the victim’s legs could potentially make the rope mercifully work a little faster. However, this theory is also discounted as, among other reasons, there is no documented evidence of how the phrase made the leap from “hanging” to “joke/lying.” Plus, there is no record of the phrase during the time suspension hangings were popular. As many important figures, among others, experienced death by suspension hanging, one would think the phrase ought to have appeared in at least one of the reports of the deaths"

Dumb af progressives falling in love with their captors. same shit'll happen once isis takes ova

>>1819613
>open random thread on /his/
>start reading through posts
>reply to as many as possible blaming commies, sjws and liberals
>accuse people who tell me to stop shitposting of being commies, sjws and liberals

Day in the life of a /pol/ moron.

>>1819604
maybe because it can seem mean but you are actually being a friend

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The name of the German state Saxony (Sachsen) is the result of a historic shift in meaning.
Old Saxony was the area in northwestern Germany inhabited by the Saxons - those Saxons that also invaded Great Britain along with the Angles. The dukes of Old Saxony gained the rule over an area which was then known as the Margravate of Meissen (Mark Meißen). As the political structure of the HRE shifted, Old Saxony was forgotten and turned into Hannover, Westphalia, Oldenburg, Brunswick and other constituencies. The Margravate of Meissen in turn adopted the name Saxony (Sachsen), which it still has today. A state of similar territory to Old Saxony was named Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) after WWII.

The Old Saxons derived their name from their main weapon, the seax. This word stems from Proto-Germanic *sahsą, which in turn stems from PIE *sek-, which sired an abundance of vocabulary in the Indo-European languages. Some examples in Modern English:
sect, sickle, sail, sex, saw, section

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>>1819671

>>1816977
Lmao

The phrase "raining cats and dogs" comes from industrial age Britain. Houses didn't have yards in the city, so the pets would be kept in the attic. Sometimes when it rained particularly heavy, the attic would flood, and the pets would be literally washed out onto the streets.

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>>1819765
That is the Low Saxon or Low German dialect area in late 1945, if I'm not mistaken. Here's a map of all continental West Germanic languages

>>1817615
Nah

>>1816977
God damn Swedes are a bunch of cucks

>>1819905
This map is difficult to read, but more accurate as the one I posted (it missed a part in the Netherlands).

>>1816977

You are now aware of that one of the kidnapped women even called our head of state (Olof Palme) and tried to convince him to withdraw the police.

>>1820249
Considering how much of a bleeding heart socialist Palme was, it wasn't an unrealistic expectation.

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>>1820233
I also really like this one.

>>1818412
Note well though, "liberal" does not have the same meaning in Europe as it does in America.
in America, a liberal is someone progressive and left-wing. In Europe, it's quite the opposite. Liberals here are right-wing, what to you is considered republican politics.

Of course, "republicans" in Europe may more literally mean someone who is a republican, i.e. that is against the monarchy. And those typically are left-wing, not right-wing, as the right-wing tends to be far more traditionalist.

>>1817603
>the whole nine yards
I thought it was because fabric was sold in 9 yard intervals?

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>>1820930
Interesting perspective. I always thought liberal had gone through a shift of meaning in the US and come to denote the authoritarian left - you know, those people who want you to implement correct gender pronouns into your daily speech. My country's "liberal" party is a libertarian and capitalist. We have a "republican" party which is far-right and used to be under surveillance for being an extreme right-wing organization.

>>1820963
No. Liberal is anyone left of a Neo-liberal (including neoliberals). Conservatives are anyone to the right if Neoliberals.

>>1820963
That's a really bad chart.

>>1821013
Yes I know

The term "limey" comes from English sailing, where to fight off scurvy the sailors would be made to eat quinine or quinine juice. However due to the highly tart and acidic nature of quinine it was mixed with sugar, water, and limes. Of course, sailors being sailors, they refused to drink this concoction so high strength gin was added to the mix.
All in all the invention of the term limey, sailor strength gin, and the gin and tonic.

>>1816977
The word "Noose" comes from the word "Nigger" and "Goose". When Niggers were hung they looked like a dead Goose so people started calling hung Niggers "Noose".

As time went on this word morphed into the knot tied to hang someone.

>>1818412
>>1820930
liberals existed before than that
liberals were the ones supporting the republic, while absolutists were the ones supporting the monarchy

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The English word "moron" actually comes from the Classical Greek "moros" albeit in accusative case.

It meant the same then as it does now.

Also, the slang word "Kudos" is also from Ancient Greek and has approximately the same meaning now as it did then too(E.g some explication of appreciation or praise).

>>1821027
wtf why do we still use such a racist term

>>1821027
I always forget how many black people were in middle age england.

>>1821027
I always forget how many black people were in medieval england.

>>1819494
in dutch/flemish we also say aardappelen (earth apples) for patatoes

>>1816977
The m16's the american army has been using for decades are no longer produced by an american company, yet they have been produced (for quite some time) by FN, a weapon factory owned by the socialist walloon government

>>1816977
Are you surprised? They're Swedes.

>>1816977
"Chicken" and "Watermelon" are one of the oldest words in the English language and the world. It is directly descended from the Ancient Egyptian words "Chikken" and "Wata'melawn.

Watermelon was one of the most common crops in Ancient Egypt grown closest to The Nile and held sacred, sometimes even worshiped by Ancient Egyptians. Chicken coated in butter-milk and cooked in hot oil was a favorite delicacy among the Egyptian aristocracy. It was commonly eaten alongside watermelon and wine.

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The abbreviation "OMG" was invented by admiral John Fisher in his letter to Winston Churchill in 1917

>>1821194
>cuckhill
shitstain cuckhill was so fucking lame

>>1816977
>Sweden

>>1819622
I wonder who could be behind this post?

>>1821194
He fucking writes how Trump tweets.

>>1821125
>mfw I'm surprised nobody fell for this

Proud of /his/.

>>1816977
"A rolling stone gathers no moss"

During woodstock, the bands used to go out and get this moss that was growing around the festival area, slightly hallucinogenic. They all used to go out, everyone was out there. Mamas and papas were doing it, the doors, they all came back. But Mick Jagger and Keith Richards would never do it. But they would smoke other peoples. Hence the expression "A rolling stone gathers no moss"

"Catholic" means "universal".

In Swahili turkey is "bata mzinga" which means "duck cannon".

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>>1819498
>It's helico-pter (spiral/spinning wing - pter=wing, like in pterodactyl), not heli-copter.

>>1821857
huh that's really interesting, i never knew that. this will be a great amusing anecdote for cocktail parties. thanks anon!

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>>1821027

>>1822588
>taking le bait

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>>1821857
>>1822585


Fucking folk etymology. It has Greek and Roman equivalents, and has been noted in English to at least 1500.

>>1822602
>>1822599

>>1821059
As a middle age englander I can say than hanging niggers was our favourite past time.

>>1818955
>The laughing cow has earings with the laughing cow on it
>laughing cow on the earings probably has identical earings, and so on forever
Thats physically impossible... has to be a shop

>Then how come today that phrase means you're "just kidding" or indicates deception? I don't see how the phrase could mean that today if the origin is about hanging. Could you explain?
>>1819630
Basically, this.
Originally, it meant "I'm saying this, not because I don't like you, but because I like you enough to tell you what you don't want to hear."
2: "I'm going to go flirt with that chick"
1: "Dude, you're ugly as sin, you shouldn't"
2: "Why would you say that?"
1: "I'm just pulling your leg"

But people unfamiliar with the term assumed from context that they meant they were joking, and then that's what the term evolved to mean

>>1819459
What has this to do with cuckolding?

"shit end of the stick" comes from when people used to wipe their asses with sticks at an outhouse. grabbing the shit end sucks.

>>1820909
Holy shit, it never occurred to me that there would be an Eastphalia

>>1820963
>>1821013
>>1821017
Is it possible to have a good chart? If so, what is one?

the term basket case was coined during ww1 to refer to someone who lost all their arms and legs

>>1818649
funfact about that, cuckoos always lay their eggs in the nests of smaller birds which taxes the parents' ability to feed them often leading to the other nestmates starving to death

>>1823729
The cuckoo chick often kills or forces out its nestmates anyway

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>>1823679
Yeah, it's a really obscure land that got split up between different rulers in the late middle ages. Old Saxony was divided into four different lands, as you can see in the map. Westphalia largely retained its identity, only the northern third came to Oldenburg and Hannover and then Lower Saxony.
Eastphalia was first divided between Braunschweig and Lüneburg, then Anhalt, and a bunch of other political identities over time. There are still a handful people who speak the Eastphalian language though, and there are interest groups for restoring the Eastphalian identity in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt today.