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> You can pay to pick up heavy things and put them back down, so we have people paying to be stevedores. Very off-topic, but "stevedore" is an awesome word. Sp
by ASalazarMX 5y ago
> You can pay to pick up heavy things and put them back down, so we have people paying to be stevedores.
Very off-topic, but "stevedore" is an awesome word. Spanish is my first language, and wouldn't have guessed the word for "estibador" in English, it looks so weird. Had to lookup the etymology, and it's weird because sailors imported the word from Spanish or Portuguese. The original Latin verb is "stipare".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevedore#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevedore#Etymology