The things you can buy on amazon
The things you can buy on amazon
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15926889
Like duct tape - my god, what is the world coming to
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hey, at least they're not calling it "duck tape"!
But, duck tape is the original name because It was made with a duck cloth backing. “Duct tape” didn’t come into use until the 1960s.
TIL ducks used to weave fabric.
Heh, you are correct
Duck tape is perfectly correct, it was the original name given to the tape with it only being used for duct work much later on.
From The Wikipedia article:
"Duck tape" is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary as having been in use since 1899[2] and "duct tape" (described as "perhaps an alteration of earlier duck tape") since 1965.[3]
It was originally used for making shoes stronger and was later used for sealing ammo tins.
Yeah, you can't really take for granite these days that people spell that correctly.
Stone cold, friend, stone cold
I now, rite?
Suposably, errors like this happen because people are playing it by year. For all intensive purposes complaining about it is a mute point though - unless they are doing it over and over and for a pacific reason, e.g. because of oldtimers desase.
I don't know much about english but I would go with duct tape from abduction.
I thinknit refers ventilation ducts originally, but yours definitely works too.