Trammell Hudson@th@social.v.st 🌐
Somehow I've only now learned about Dick Whittington's cat, which he bought for a penny and sent aboard a ship as his investment in the voyage. When the ship reached the Barbary coast they met a King who had trouble with rats and who bought the cat for more than the goods in the hold, thereby making Dick very rich. https://archive.org/details/adventuresofwhit00albaiala/mode/2up
Trammell Hudson@th@social.v.st 🏠
I was actually looking up the etymology of "dickhead" to see if it existed in gollyplot's time and one of the citations was "The Adventures of Whittington and His Cat" https://hachyderm.io/@http_error_418/116806193816646688
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Time to bring out my absolute favourite linguistics discussion of all time again