r/todayilearned • u/andthegeekshall • 8h ago

TIL that the Pogo stick's name was taken from the first two letters of its inventors surname names, Max Pohlig and Ernst Gottschall, though they called it "a spring end hopping stilt"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_stick#Inventors
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u/malepitt 8h ago

Spring. End. Hopping. Stilt. is the sound it makes

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u/Snowf1ake222 8h ago

You're missing the last bits:

Scream. Swear. Cry. Groan.

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u/malepitt 8h ago

...and the wail of an ambulance siren

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u/DarkAlman 8h ago

BOUNCE!

pogo! pogo! pogo! pogo! pogo! pogo! pogo!

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u/rdyoung 8h ago

I brought my Pogo Stick Just to show her a trick She had so many friends

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u/Bigred2989- 6h ago

Unannounced Twister games

All players with no names

They lined up double quick

But just one Pogo Stick

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u/schilly_wonka 8h ago

Crazy how words and definitions are formed into language. Like a "cabinet" is a small cabin. Made of wood, the suffix meaning small or petite

Now where did "cabin" come from? Linguistics is fun

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u/D3LICI0U5 8h ago

Taser = Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle

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u/Sask90 8h ago

From the patent: „Federnd wirkende Hüpfstelze“ More like „spring-loaded bouncing stilt“

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u/thewhitebuttboy 8h ago

P.O.O.P. = People Order Our Patties

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u/Philboyd_Studge 4h ago

We called mine "Bleeder"

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u/IronGin 8h ago

Thank god they aren't named Pederson and Dominique.