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valeyard89 t1_j8gspv3 wrote

I'm not your buddy, guy

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the_cocytus t1_j8gta38 wrote

I’m not your guy friend

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HanSolo71 OP t1_j8gxd43 wrote

I'm not your friend, pal!

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markrogerm t1_j8gk8hh wrote

“The term Guy derives from the French word “guie,” meaning guide or to guide found in use about 900 years ago. The Dutch, in the 1600's, began the use of “guy” in terms that we are more familiar with today” - shamelessly copied from some other source

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Sdog1981 t1_j8gulfs wrote

I only know that because I read the instructions and people started to make fun of me for saying guy and not guide.

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kracer20 t1_j8gl7w6 wrote

"Coming down the pike" is one that I didn't know for a long time. I wonder what other misunderstanding we can come up with?

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V6Ga t1_j8gzt17 wrote

Expand this please?

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ksdkjlf t1_j8jd3t2 wrote

I'm assuming they mean they only learned it was "pike" rather than "pipe" recently,.since it's a commonly cited mondegreen — or as reddit calls it, a r/BoneAppleTea.

Pike meaning "highway" is a shortening of turnpike, a term for a toll road most commonly encountered in the US Northeast, as u/jungl3j1m points out. So it's basically just "coming down the road". But to folks who don't call highways "pikes", it is often interpreted as "pipe".

A turnpike was originally a type of military defense that was used to stop horses or vehicles from going down a road — either like a cheval de fries or a turnstile — a set of pikes, turning around a central axis. Eventually it meant any sort of barrier, and then the road on which such a barrier might exist, i.e. a toll road.

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V6Ga t1_j8ma5o0 wrote

But it is both, and this has been covered by people a couple times.

I say both, but I also had no idea how much my language was bent by having a dyed in the wool New England Yankee around from childhood.

Down the pike from roadways, and down the pipe from aqueducts, and later pneumatic tube messenging systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube

In fact, some of the people following up on this thought it more likely to be down the pipe "originally" or at least dominantly as pneumatic tube messages just show up without warning, whereas anything coming down the highway gives ample warning before arrival.

Language is general is fun. Hawaii and New England share lots of weird similarities that the rest of the US apparently does not. For me Aunt does not rhyme with Ant (that's not so uncommon because Auntie never rhymes with anty). And apparently this is the New England way as well. Tomahto is also not uncommon and that too is a New Englandism. Zoris too.

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jungl3j1m t1_j8ih50l wrote

“Pike” is a word for a road that connects towns, used chiefly in New England. Examples are the Chamberburg Pike and the Jersey Turnpike.

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SturrPhox t1_j8ill7j wrote

Wait, is that really only a northeast thing? I've seen them in NJ, NY, and PA and just kinda assumed everyone else had them too.

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ksdkjlf t1_j8jdaxh wrote

"Turnpike" and "pike" is def a NE thing. In most other places they're are just called toll roads or highways.

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V6Ga t1_j8magca wrote

In many important senses, PA, NJ, and NY are New England, because of the history.

Ohio also has or had a turnpike, but that's because Pennsylvania called theirs a turnpike.

I wonder if any states not connected to New England proper have turnpike other than Ohio.

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ChrisGeritol t1_j8j7fqk wrote

Pikes (the fish) have sharp teeth. Be careful when trying to cum down the pike.

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wegqg t1_j8gq8n3 wrote

It's one of those phonetically similar words whose ending gets confused regularly.

Like duck tape / duct tape.

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V6Ga t1_j8h03iu wrote

Duck/Duct Tape is interesting because it converges on that. It was originally two separate products, that resembled each other and so merged.

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CorneliusKvakk t1_j8hm3j9 wrote

I understand what they use duct tape for, but why would you need to develop a fabric tape for ducks?

Unless they copied the tape and gave it a slighly different "funny" name.

Edit: so it was made from cotton canvas (dutch "doek" -that's a Nice little rabbit hole 😃 wiki

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Granite-moose t1_j8hm7h9 wrote

Duck tape was waterproof as I recall so water would run off it like a duck hence the name

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V6Ga t1_j8hvax5 wrote

And that name is from the ducked cotton.

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hsvsunshyn t1_j8iajul wrote

Even better, "guy" comes from the French word "guie", which means "guide"!

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Sybrandus t1_j8i514m wrote

It’s also “but” and not “by”.

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ShadyBushmann t1_j8gsnlz wrote

This guy must be a tower rigger.

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Cute_Consideration38 t1_j8gu00l wrote

Watch it buddy, that was almost racist.

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V6Ga t1_j8h09mm wrote

Are you against towheaded kids?

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snow_michael t1_j8hege3 wrote

Like guy ropes for tents & marquees

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NickDoane t1_j8iddej wrote

I learned this studying to be an electrician.

Now 3x a year minimum I point off to one of them and Say "look at that guy"

Yes.

I am also a dad.

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papaHans t1_j8jfvwy wrote

On sailboats, they are mostly called stays and the guy rope holds the spinnaker pole.

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kthulhu666 t1_j8gotvj wrote

'Scuse me, while I kiss this guide.

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tvieno t1_j8gqopg wrote

Ok, guy.

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TheInvisibleWun2 t1_j8ii12e wrote

I learnt it at six when I tripped over a guy wire when out camping with the family and coming back from the ablution block after showering. I had to go back for another shower after landing face down in the mud.

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Bormsie721 t1_j8j0vbg wrote

I'm guessing someone saw the video of the jeep going offroad

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balmury t1_j8gmvh7 wrote

They know a guy…

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mcpoopy21 t1_j8glb4i wrote

Did you just assume these wires sexual identity? All seriousness we use guy wires that can be insanely long on towers.

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