I once heard a story about Torpenhow Hill, somewhere in England. With the Welsh Saxons, and Norse, in which order I don't remember, establishing successive territorial dominance over an area including this hill, it became "How Hill," and then "Penhow Hill" and then "Torpenhow Hill," which by now means Hill Hill Hill Hill.
Someone please correct my inaccuracies in this re-telling.
Kind of like the way a duvet became a duvet cover, which is cover cover.
I once heard a story about Torpenhow Hill, somewhere in England. With the Welsh Saxons, and Norse, in which order I don't remember, establishing successive territorial dominance over an area including this hill, it became "How Hill," and then "Penhow Hill" and then "Torpenhow Hill," which by now means Hill Hill Hill Hill.
Someone please correct my inaccuracies in this re-telling.
Kind of like the way a duvet became a duvet cover, which is cover cover.
Have you ever entered a PIN number at the ATM machine?
Lol. But that doesn’t quite work in the same way. “ATM Machine” would get abbreviated to just “AM.”
And then people would start referring to AM machines, which would get shortened to...