Where do our engineering words come from?
Where do our engineering words come from?
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Why do we call it a 'bending moment', it sounds to me like it is taking some time for itself, having a moment.
Shear apparently comes from the Angl-saxon Sceran,
Deflection comes from the Latin Deflectere;
Anyone?
Shear apparently comes from the Angl-saxon Sceran,
Deflection comes from the Latin Deflectere;
Anyone?





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The etymology site below is interesting, but says nothing about "Bending moment" http://www.etymonline.com
Moment sometimes has a meaning of "importance" to it. Like "the moment of truth". The meaning of words sometimes develop in mysterious ways. I think that this could be the case.
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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Now I think I'll take moment...
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Why do we call "rig pigs", well, "rig pigs"?
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Nevermind who made it (up), it's true.
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I still wonder what is the origin of this word "pigging". Is it because the "pig" in the pipeline cleans dirt just as a pig eats sh#t?
A.V.Dinesh
Devki Energy Consultancy P. Ltd.,
Vadodara, India
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A real pig has bristly hair.
Just guessing.
I still don't know the origin of "rig pigs" though. Anyone?
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Sometimes, a marginally sized pig was introduced and due to gaining girth while it ate, it would get stuck and make all manner of noise until starvation shrunk it down. From that we get 'Sqealing like a stuck pig', a common saying here in Australia at least.
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Cheers
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Because only the senior management were able to keep the pigs and eat them once they'd done their job, this is where the phrase 'Living high on the hog' came from.
LewTam Inc.
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Really?
Are they as questionable as some of the postings in this thread?
B.E.
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@edav:
That's a good one!
But this is an open forum, maybe a moderated one. A site that purports to be kind of an encyclopedia has got watch out for errors.