Agent641@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 4 months agoDon't google 'solar flare'lemmy.worldimagemessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1102arrow-down147
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minus-squareDeme@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down3·4 months agoGoogle and the Oxford dictionary disagree.
minus-squareMiaou@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·4 months agoAnd Cambridge says it means to die from it.
minus-squarejaemo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoI wonder if the origin of the word was a portmanteau of electricity and execute. Execute to death, of course
minus-squareDeme@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-24 months agoCould be, but there’s other words with that same ending
minus-squarejaemo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoThis is what I get for skipping Latin…
Google and the Oxford dictionary disagree.
And Cambridge says it means to die from it.
I wonder if the origin of the word was a portmanteau of electricity and execute.
Execute to death, of course
Could be, but there’s other words with that same ending
This is what I get for skipping Latin…