Re: Promiseland
Posted: Fri May 01, 2026 9:54 am
English makes compound nouns like 'firefighter' (one who fire-fights) but there was a bit where we just decided to do it backwards because we felt like it, resulting in compounds like 'pickpocket' (one who picks pockets, you see the difference?)
I love that that was a thing and I love that there's a set of terms from the time that survive today, just a handful of words that were made backwards