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WOTD: fitting

5mon 2d ago by lemmy.world/u/noumenon in linguistics@mander.xyz from en.wiktionary.org

"If I fits, I sits" is fitting.

Interesting how the main verb (fit) has barely any known etymology. Wiktionary lists a potential Middle English ancestor, perhaps an Icelandic cognate, and... that's it. And it's semantically a mess.