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The weird thing about the origin of the word sandwich is that everyone had been eating them for centuries, but one day the Earl of Sandwich orders one and they say, "it takes too long to say bread-and-meat, let's just call it a sandwich."
By the way, no one knows for sure the etymology of 'squid.'
Squid is a perfect description of a squid though. So whoever came up with that one, nailed it!
There are a bunch of animal names like that. Notably "dog" and "chicken" just showed up without any real source. In middle English we have hounds, and fowls/cocks/hens. It's strange for domestic animals that have been around forever to get renamed afor no apparent reason.
Huh, I just assumed chicken was chick+hen
I could've swore dog came from the old Scottish word dug. Which was another word for dog
not true, squid come from squyrde
I don't know what "squyrde" is, but it doesn't show up in any etymological source I've ever seen.
For example:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/squid
Yes. Thats where squyrde comes from
Squyrde comes from Squirtle