Monday, November 10, 2025

the word 'petty' comes from the French 'petit' meaning small

the word 'pet' comes from the Gaelic 'peata' meaning tame animal

so just know that when you say

give my little petty pet a petty pet on its petty pet head

that's two different etymologies. 

when I started this blog I was really into writing words that turned up zero Google results. I have also since archived a lot of those posts so they probably still don't turn up any results. I have also forgotten the words. 

If you want to experience what this is like for yourself, the next time you're at the beach pick up a handful of sand and say, "I bet no one has thrown this exact handful of sand before!" and throw it into the ocean and think to yourself, "yeah. I did something today."

1 comment:

crab said...

Just riffle shuffle a deck like 5+ times and you will have created a sequence of cards in a deck that has almost certainly never existed before in the universe. Unless you just opened a fresh, fully sorted deck of cards, in which case maybe riffle shuffle it 10 times or so. I don't know the exact count of shuffles needed but it's unintuitively small