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I could believe that it might be a local or even vocation-specific phrase (see “southpaw” in boxing, for example), but the doubling down instead of questioning whether their take might be hyperspecific or plain wrong is hilarious.

Yeah, “paw” typically is understood to mean the forefoot of furry animals without hooves or similar. I think most people would say “hand” for a monkey, but language isn’t always precise, and the phrase “monkey’s paw” (as a magical item) is at least a hundred years old too.

“Paw” does not mean “palm”. It effectively means “animal forefoot” for furry animals with soft-bottomed round-ish feet.

To scale horizontally, they’re using the chard pattern.

Kids these days listen to BCE⚡️CE without even knowing who laid the foundations of the genre.

You wouldn’t want the comments to be watered down, surely?

Plenty in French too! And this is just English; my point is that loanwords are super common.

It’s what every language does, to some extent. You’d really struggle to say, “I was working from home, sending emails and providing feedback, and during a meeting with my team and the marketing manager, the internet died” in German without stuffing the sentence to the brim with English loanwords.

Red Mullet for comparison:

I’ve never heard of Gesse Faden.

I think that question is best posed to the Joint Photographic Experts Group, better known as “jay-fegg”.

(For the record, I’m in camp “G as in Graphic”, but it’s still true that an acronym’s source words don’t dictate the pronunciation.)

I guess the author realized after posting that having the MAGA fish be on the right made more sense?

Sure, but since the monster was assembled from the cadavers of several people, it would be fitting if he carried their names too, so a septuple-barreled name is the obvious choice.

Did we turn off the stove?

Very liminal!

I guess the white margin was an artistic decision, but I was feeling snarky before I realized which community this was, and it feels a shame not to post it now.

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Additionally, a lot of them borrowed from heraldry or livery, hence the popularity of the Red Lion, the White Hart, the Crown, the Kings Arms, etc.