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> "which will fissile out in a few months" A tangential nitpick: it's fizzle out, from a Middle English etymology meaning "to fart"; not to fission (fissile be
by perihelions 1y ago
> "which will fissile out in a few months"
A tangential nitpick: it's fizzle out, from a Middle English etymology meaning "to fart"; not to fission (fissile being an adjectival form), from Latin "to split".
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fizzle#Etymology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fizzle#Etymology ("Attested in English since 1525-35. From earlier fysel (“to fart”). Related to fīsa (“to fart”). Compare with Swedish fisa (“to fart (silently)”). See also feist.")
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/feist#Etymology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/feist#Etymology
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fissile#Etymology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fissile#Etymology ("From Latin fissilis.")
- Waterluvian 1y agoI’ve never heard fissile out but I love it for describing a problem that will go away once the full consequences have already been felt.
- GlacierFox 1y agoIt's fizzle where I'm from in the UK. To fizzle out is to weakly and pittifully end with no meaningful after effects. Like after lighting a firework that didn't actually go off. "It's fizzled out!"
- 93po 1y agoguessing it was autocorrect issue :)
- dpoloncsak 1y ago"to fission (fissile being an adjectival form), from Latin 'to split'." Does this mean "Missile" means "to miss"? 'Cause boy have we been using those things wrong :-)