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dethskwirl t1_ja3m3gh wrote

Reply to comment by Pogue_Mahone_ in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged

that's funny. so then their name for the whale is also just their word for "strange or odd", as in "that animal is so weird, let's just call it weird"

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