Q: Ah okay, yes I’ve heard of “lumberjacks”. Those Canadians yelling “timber!” earlier – well, you’d call them lumberjacks. I don’t see the term “lumber” used here in Australia at all.Ī: Yeah, it’s not. Q: Okay, so that’s timber, and it seems to have all the bases covered.
Q: So why would a pirate go around saying “break my ship!”Ī: According to the Macquarie Dictionary, it was “ a mock nautical oath, expressing fearful anticipation or surprise”. Even today it has a second meaning, “to break or split into fragments”. Meanwhile, shiver hasn’t always been about the cold. The term “timbers” dates back to the 1700s and simply referred to the wooden hull of a ship. Q: And why do pirates say, “shiver me timbers”? Is it some kind of muscle memory spasm related to their wooden leg?Ī: Very creative, but no. It could have been much earlier, but those trees fell in a forest when no one else was around to hear them. Canadians have been shouting that since 1912. Q: So how long have people been calling out “timber!” when they chop down a tree?Ī: That’s more recent. Q: And yet a zimmer frame is made from aluminium… But fun fact, the name “Zimmerman” means “carpenter” in German. That’s clearly why he uses a lot of woodwind instruments.Ī: No. It had Norse and German roots – timbr and zimmer respectively.Ī: Yep.
It originally meant a “building or structure” before expanding to also define trees suitable for building, and eventually trees or wood in general. The word “timber” is as old as the trees themselves – dating back to Old English well before the 13th century. The term “timber” was definitely the original word.Ī: The best way to tell is to count the number of rings on each of the letters.Ī: Never mind, just a tree joke. I mean what’s the difference between “timber” and “lumber”? Is it just a geographic thing?Ī: Ah, good question. Q: Hi AWC, I have a knotty question for you this week.Ī: Do you mean like tables, chairs and most of Andie McDowell’s performances? It’s a celebration of language, masquerading as a passive-aggressive whinge about words and weirdness.
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