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That page also claims that "picnic" has a racist origin based on lynching, despite being derived from a French word from the 1690s: https://www.etymonline.com/
by spiralx 4y ago
That page also claims that "picnic" has a racist origin based on lynching, despite being derived from a French word from the 1690s:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/picnic https://www.etymonline.com/word/picnic
Their entries on "long time no see" and "no can do" seem pretty spurious as well, which undermines the whole page's validity. It's a shame TBH, those are really strange unforced errors to have included.
- pwillia7 4y agoOops -- I did the classic google, copy/paste, no read. Looks like I picked a bad source. Sorry!