bookshop: solongasitswords: nullbula: thesylverlining: what happened in roughly 1870 though why was
bookshop:solongasitswords:nullbula:thesylverlining:what happened in roughly 1870 thoughwhy was there temporary internetwith a few people searching for pokemon?It’s a search of Google books, but the question still stands, what the Fuck happened in 1870I CAN ANSWER THIS!!In the Cornish dialect of English, Pokemon meant ‘clumsy’ (pure coincidence).In the mid 1800s there was a surge of writing about the Cornish language and dialect in an attempt to preserve them with glossaries and dictionaries being written. I wrote about it HERE.I just love that this post happened to find the ONE HUMAN ON THE INTERNET who had the answer to this question -- source link
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