Was slightly mindblown whenl discovered this.
The two parts to the word "helicopter" are not "helil" and "copter", but "helico" meaning spiral, and "pter" meaning one with wings, like pterodactyl.
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wait WHAT
Aderinthemadscientist: Wait, so... does -copter come "from" helicopter?
108echoes: Yep! This is called rebracketing. Another famous example would be"-burger": the original food item is named after the German city, (Hamburgl+(er], but semantically reinterpreted as (ham]+[burger].
(Rebra)cketing
Or blog, for that matter
What's 'blog' a rebracketing/contraction of?
Weblog. A log you keep on the interwebz. Web-log.
Lmao, how tf did I forget that? Thank you!
Damn that one got me
Or vlog?
That's a portmanteau.
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