acemuzzy wrote:
acemuzzy wrote:So I thought the suffragettes were called that cos they yknow "suffered" for a worthy cause and stuff. But no! Suffrage is a legit weird in its own right, derived from sub (under/on behalf of) and frago (shout and break shit - also in "fragment" say) and basically just means voting these days having previously meant kinda supporting. Maybe everyone knew that already, but there ya go
acemuzzy wrote:So I thought the suffragettes were called that cos they yknow "suffered" for a worthy cause and stuff. But no! Suffrage is a legit weird in its own right, derived from sub (under/on behalf of) and frago (shout and break shit - also in "fragment" say) and basically just means voting these days having previously meant kinda supporting. Maybe everyone knew that already, but there ya go
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