blaydonraces:
“ bookshop:
“ solongasitswords:
“ nullbula:
“ thesylverlining:
“ what happened in roughly 1870 though
why was there temporary internet
with a few people searching for pokemon?
”
It’s a search of Google books, but the question still...

blaydonraces:

bookshop:

solongasitswords:

nullbula:

thesylverlining:

what happened in roughly 1870 though

why was there temporary internet

with a few people searching for pokemon?

It’s a search of Google books, but the question still stands, what the Fuck happened in 1870

I 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.

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I just love that this post happened to find the ONE HUMAN ON THE INTERNET who had the answer to this question

Celtic Studies saves the day

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