"Jump ship"

The oldest occurrence of "jump ship" that I know of was in a movie I saw part or all of on TV in the 1980s.

At the beginning of the movie, a Soviet ship and an American ship were alongside each other, I think so one could help the other with an emergency. One of the Soviet men jumped from a high part of the Soviet ship to a lower part of the American ship to defect before they separated. The rest of the movie was about his experiences in the USA while the two governments argued about what to do with him.

Soon after the jump, the Americans on that ship found out that he could speak rather limited English, so they spoke to him with as few extra words as possible. A question which would've normally been "Why did you jump off your ship?" or "why did you jump to our ship?" got reduced to "Why jump ship?".

Does anybody here know of any earlier occurrences than that?

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When did washing lose the wish?

What exactly is a washing?


I do know...


It is the flip side of wish


Wish


Wash


We wish


We wash


Wish wash


Wish wish wish

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The semantic shift of Tikvah (תִּקְוָה) in Biblical Hebrew: From physical "cord" (Josh 2:18) to abstract "hope" (Jer 29:11)?
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About the name Sesame Street
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Cognates between Vietnamese (Vietic - the easternmost branch of Austroasiatic) and Santali (Munda - the westernmost branch of Austroasiatic) [Ol Chiki | Chữ Nôm | 19th-century experimental script Quốc Âm Tân Tự]

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Great Resource for Indo-European cognates between Persian and English

Came across this fascinating article on the history of Persian language and extant Indo-European cognates, especially with English. Thought it was worth sharing.

https://borderlessblogger.com/2023/05/19/hidden-in-plain-sight-illuminating-indo-european-words-in-persian/



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Words that have lost their original meaning.

>The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. --Terry Pratchett

Any of you know of lying words who are still in use but meanings have nearly completely changed?

* toilet (furniture) - stand for daily morning wash
* hospital - city run hospitality house where anyone can rest for the night for free due to Christian charity
* pudding - to cook by boiling in a sack
* boulevard - road by the wall of city for fortification
* terrible - to inspire terror

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Have you ever looked up the history of a word and been completely shocked by where it actually came from?

Let me know!!!

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Looking for info on usage of "on" as "without"
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Been calling this subject “Entomology” for years

I just discovered today that this subject of the study of language is Etymology, not Entomology for the first time after saying it wrong for years and no one correcting me. Thought you people would ironically get the biggest kick out of that.
If this mistake bugs you please feel free to grill me below…

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Heard an odd name at work today. Any ideas where it might come from?

I work as a market researcher, which is just a nicer way of saying I make calls to strangers and ask them to do various surveys over the phone.

I asked a man for his first name today, then I asked him again because I thought I'd misheard, then I asked him to spell it, and then I asked him to spell it again because I was sure I'd misheard that too...

Hreimnon

I didn't have the courage to ask anything about his name, like what nationality it is or what it means, because he was already annoyed from having to repeat himself. He did the survey and went about his day.

Later on during my break I ended up googling it out of curiosity. ZERO google results! Nada. Zip. Zilch. Do you know how often I search something that gets absolutely no results on google? This was the first time.

I'm not sure if his mother just came up with the name by slapping random keys but I'm curious now and I'd like to know if there's any interesting roots for Hreimnon?

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