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This is interesting. For a couple of reasons.
One, I can see the tie-in, sorry, the etymology. Ligature + com, reduced to col.
Two, the Russian word for "to file" as in the office sense, is "vshivat'", to sew in. Many Russians still do this, in a literal sense. When I was working in Russia, I frequently saw applications for our programs that had quite literally been sewn together.
Sometimes it was a simple corner "punch and sew," but other times people went in at the bottom, up in the middle, down at the top, and back. This was at the time the official way for notaries to put documents together, to prove they had been notarized and were legal. The threads were sealed on the back of the package.
Of course, some got a bit carried away. I actually got applications that had basically been drilled and then crimped together with wire. Interesting world, Russia.
Slava
One, I can see the tie-in, sorry, the etymology. Ligature + com, reduced to col.
Two, the Russian word for "to file" as in the office sense, is "vshivat'", to sew in. Many Russians still do this, in a literal sense. When I was working in Russia, I frequently saw applications for our programs that had quite literally been sewn together.
Sometimes it was a simple corner "punch and sew," but other times people went in at the bottom, up in the middle, down at the top, and back. This was at the time the official way for notaries to put documents together, to prove they had been notarized and were legal. The threads were sealed on the back of the package.
Of course, some got a bit carried away. I actually got applications that had basically been drilled and then crimped together with wire. Interesting world, Russia.
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