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I'm just amazed he got doffing correct but donning incorrect, most people don't know the word doffing in my experience.
by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I'm just amazed he got doffing correct but donning incorrect, most people don't know the word doffing in my experience.
- selimthegrim 6y agoDoff one's cap probably fell out of common use when people stopped wearing hats.
- arduanika 6y agoAnd when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat, No stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas Casey at the bat.
- fsckboy 6y agoi just googled "don and doff" to see if I could find any shared etymology with "on and off" or if that was a coincidence... and discovered that "donning and doffing PPE" is a thing, hence, not so surprising that somebody would learn it or know it.
- schoen 6y agoHuh, Wiktionary suggests that these came from "do on" and "do off" or similar phrases in Middle English. I never realized that!
- lambda_obrien 6y agoI'm not surprised someone used them together, but in my experience most people don't deal with PPE a daily basis, so a lot of folks seem to use don (a common word I guess) but I've rarely seen doff used.
- hanklazard 6y agowe joke about these terms all the time, so they're frequently in the air ...