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

• posterboy 8y ago
  I'd still hold that the name stuck because it was at least a funny play of words and probably way older than the earl.
  • posterboy 8y ago
    the word "send" doesn't seem to have changed much; Meant travel, journey. Sandwich was a landing site for ships, roman beach head and all. So sandwich was kind of ... a postoffice? traveler's office? Just a marketplace and harbour? I mean, compare Stralsunt and tell me that's named for being built on sunt, err I mean sand. On the other hand, the look and feel of hardtack (which cannot be Tolkiens waybread if that's brown on the outside and creamy on the inside) and zwieback pretty much reminds of sand. And they might sell it to ships leaving port. That doesn't quite figure with how we know a sandwhich today, but sure enough, there are other roots that can derive "sand-". At any rate, placenames lend much better and hence more often to food names. And placenames in turn have often been related to milling and possibly mill-derivatives; to biblical proportions--cf. Bethlehem--which, again, may mean that bread words overlap with more figurative meanings; compare "sound" (healthy), from PIE reconstruction *swent-~sunt- (vigor); Then compare vigor and -wich ... Townsville might sound redundant, but there it is.