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It looks like it could also be an anglicized version of the modern Swedish word for submarine, which appears to be Ubåt [0]. In the US we definitely usually ass
by lolinder 3y ago
It looks like it could also be an anglicized version of the modern Swedish word for submarine, which appears to be Ubåt [0]. In the US we definitely usually associate the word U-boat with the Germans, but I'm not sure how else one would anglicize Ubåt.
[0] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ub%C3%A5t https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ub%C3%A5t
- primitivesuave 3y agoThe primary sources are hard to find on this, but the common year of first usage in English (1914) seems to coincide with the first sinking of a ship by a German submarine-launched torpedo [1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Pathfinder_(1904) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Pathfinder_(1904)
- lolinder 3y agoRight, I didn't meant to imply that English got the word from Swedish, just that the author chose a reasonable anglicization that their readers would recognize.