Paraneoptera@sopuli.xyztoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL The term "joystick" does not originate from video games, and was first coined in 1909English
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4 months agoPlausible. What’s definitely true is that the George association has zero support from any reputable published source, and is just speculation.
“Anglicized” is probably not the best way to think about it. The Latin letter “v” was pronounced “w” through the classical period, but had shifted to β or v (fricative) by the third century, long before English existed. V was pronounced v (voiced labiodental fricative) for many centuries. And though we do tend to give the classical period a lot of prestige, it was just one phase for Latin.