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amandel
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Battery

Postby amandel » Tue Apr 25, 2023 8:30 am

When my Kindle popped up the message "Battery level is low" today, I thought it was celebrating the absence of sexual violence in the neighbourhood.

bbeeton
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Re: Battery

Postby bbeeton » Tue Apr 25, 2023 10:10 am

Or any violence, for that matter.

There's also the Battery in Charleston, SC, which is now a promenade but which used to be where guns were emplaced to guard the harbor. It's always rather low though, and may in time be inundated by rising sea level. It's well enough known that it has been adopted as the name of the local soccer team. (If not assault, at least enthusiastic competition.)

David Myer
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Re: Battery

Postby David Myer » Thu Apr 27, 2023 7:35 am

Not to mention battery farming.

All from the same origin apparently - battre, to strike in Old French.

I can see assault and battery. I can see gun emplacements. I can see batsmen in cricket. But battery farming and car batteries...?

Is a battery a place where Yorkshire pudding (batter) is made?


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