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Ellie 🐍☃️ :blobsnowedin:​

I just realized that "nacho" and "Nazi" are linguistic cousins. (Nachos are named for their inventor, Ignacio Anaya; "Nazi" is from Ignatz, a stock "ignorant bumpkin" character in Bavarian jokes.)

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Eugen Rochko

@noelle Uh, I thought nazi was a portmanteau of national-sozialist

  Ellie 🐍☃️ :blobsnowedin:​

@Gargron That's part of why the mockery works, yeah - people found that the "Nazi" nickname for Ignatz also worked as a shortening of national-sozialist.

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