cm0002@lemy.lol to Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 13 days agoArchaeologists in France Dig Up a Jar Packed With Tens of Thousands of 1,800-Year-Old Roman Coinswww.zmescience.comexternal-linkmessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up1211arrow-down10
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minus-squarebaahb@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·13 days ago*jar" doesn’t really seem like the correct work for 10,000 anything unless its rice?
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·13 days agoIt’s probably a translation thing. English probably got the word Jar from French but uses it in a slightly different way.
minus-squareLvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 days ago“Jar” originally could be used for larger containers too, like amphorae. It’s just nowadays people “defaulted” it to those small glass containers with (usually metal) lids. …I want a jar of cookies. In the old sense of the word.
*jar" doesn’t really seem like the correct work for 10,000 anything unless its rice?
It’s probably a translation thing. English probably got the word Jar from French but uses it in a slightly different way.
“Jar” originally could be used for larger containers too, like amphorae. It’s just nowadays people “defaulted” it to those small glass containers with (usually metal) lids.
…I want a jar of cookies. In the old sense of the word.
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