FindThatMeme - Meme Karthik Balakrishnan @kartk8351 Follow Was slightly mindblown when I discovered this. The two parts to the word "helicopter" are not "heli" and "copter", but "helico" meaning spiral, and "pter" meaning one with wings, like pterodactyl. 10,44 AM - 5 Mar 2018 21,230 Retweets 87,241 LIke 000 - 000 0 0 O sr 17 21K 02 sTk E wait WHAT A derinthemadscientist Wait, so... does -copter come *from* helicopter? 108echoes Yep! This is called rebracketing. Another famous example would be "-burger": the original food item is named after the German city, [Hamburg]+[er], but got semantically reinterpreted as [ham]+ [burger]. Now it's used as a suffix indicating type of sandwich.

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Karthik Balakrishnan @kartk8351 Follow Was slightly mindblown when I discovered this. The two parts to the word "helicopter" are not "heli" and "copter", but "helico" meaning spiral, and "pter" meaning one with wings, like pterodactyl. 10,44 AM - 5 Mar 2018 21,230 Retweets 87,241 LIke 000 - 000 0 0 O sr 17 21K 02 sTk E wait WHAT A derinthemadscientist Wait, so... does -copter come *from* helicopter? 108echoes Yep! This is called rebracketing. Another famous example would be "-burger": the original food item is named after the German city, [Hamburg]+[er], but got semantically reinterpreted as [ham]+ [burger]. Now it's used as a suffix indicating type of sandwich.

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