Of Bikes and Faks

Language/Usage | April 16, 2010 by | 2 Comments

Why did people start calling the bicycle a bike? Why not a bice?

A facsimile became a fax, but it would have easy to call is a fak, right?

I don’t get it.

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2 Responses to “Of Bikes and Faks”

  1. April 16, 2010 at 9:18 am #

    Fak was already taken:
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fak

    🙂

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  2. April 16, 2010 at 9:57 am #

    So was bike:

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bike

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