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submitted 8 months ago by LinearArray@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org 13 points 8 months ago

In the railway context an engineer was the person who worked the engine.

In German the word comes from Latin roughly meaning inventor. Presumably the general usage of the word engineer in English has the same etymology.