• Python
    12•3 days ago

    hey, at least they’re not calling it “duck tape”!

    • @athairmor
      24•3 days ago

      But, duck tape is the original name because It was made with a duck cloth backing. “Duct tape” didn’t come into use until the 1960s.

    • @wiccan2
      13•3 days ago

      Duck tape is perfectly correct, it was the original name given to the tape with it only being used for duct work much later on.

      From The Wikipedia article:

      “Duck tape” is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary as having been in use since 1899[2] and “duct tape” (described as “perhaps an alteration of earlier duck tape”) since 1965.[3]

      It was originally used for making shoes stronger and was later used for sealing ammo tins.

    • @BatrickPateman
      10•3 days ago

      Yeah, you can’t really take for granite these days that people spell that correctly.

        • @BatrickPateman
          3•3 days ago

          Suposably, errors like this happen because people are playing it by year. For all intensive purposes complaining about it is a mute point though - unless they are doing it over and over and for a pacific reason, e.g. because of oldtimers desase.

      • @BatrickPateman
        2•3 days ago

        I thinknit refers ventilation ducts originally, but yours definitely works too.