37 Chris Rufo: The University of Texas is now promoting the word "wimmin," so that students and faculty can "avoid the word ending in '-men.'" (twitter.com) posted 1 year ago by FrozeInFear 1 year ago by FrozeInFear +37 / -0 32 comments share 32 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Yeah, it's like that old joke question "Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?"
Because the words parkway and driveway have different, unrelated origins.
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Parkway is also very rarely used outside North America. To avoid this confusion (at least partly. But also for other historical reasons)…
Kind of a cool idea, though, the original “parkway” concept.
“Driveway”, on the other hand…
There’s an Australian metal band called Parkway Drive. I’m not a fan, but I do know people who know them, and they’re huge, at the moment…
Anyway, obviously their name is an attempted pun, based on that whole thing…