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The 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 Germa
by primitivesuave 3y ago
The 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.