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English, 06.12.2020 20:50 ganlysiai

English is weird yo! Why do we call something delivered by car, shipment and something delivered by ship, cargo? doesn't that sort of contridict what the vechicles are called?

followup question to weird English things, why do we have a word for throwing someone out of a window; Defenestration, but not for "the day after tomorrow"?

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