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The most dangerous kind of canoes...(lemmy.world)

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Usernameblankface@lemmy.world
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Bing helped me put together the mental image I got from this post.

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littlecolt@lemm.ee
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But which one will we be mispronouncing?

Canoes = kay-noes?

Volcanoes = vahl cuh noos?

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stebo02@sopuli.xyz
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TIL canoes isn’t pronounced kay-noes like volcanoes… English why do you keep bamboozling me 😩

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dustyData@lemmy.world
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Because English isn’t a language, it’s a goon in a trench-coat that lures other languages into dark alleys and beats them down to steal spare grammar.

Canoe comes from Caribbean indigenous words through Spanish and Volcano comes from ancient Latin and Roman religion.

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stanka@lemmy.ml
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I’m not doing research here while being an internet expert. But more people are killed every year in canoe-related incidents than volcano related incidents.

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Eylrid@lemmy.world
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Mildly related fact: More people die of drowning every year than have ever died from nuclear incidents including Nagasaki and Hiroshima

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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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Technically, cancer caused by cosmic rays is also a nuclear incident.

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stanka@lemmy.ml
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As a man of history would not use the term incident to describe those wartime actions.

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jballs@sh.itjust.works
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Where do douche-canoes fit in on the danger spectrum?

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HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world
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Well that’s French for shower canoes

And everyone knows not to mess with the French, lest they hit you with their baguettes

Ergo super dangerous

QED

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HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world
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I’m drunk btw

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Chais@sh.itjust.works
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And are vol-canoes flying canoes?

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ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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Well the old West Norse ‘völlr’ means field, so “vol-canoe” would roughly be field-canoe, or land-boat…

So maybe a tractor?

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ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
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You’re thinking of flyaks, or possibly skyaks.

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