Derivation of the word 'Saboteur'
Derivation of the word 'Saboteur'
Saboteur is a noun that is fairly new to the English language; it was first used in the early 1900s, and it refers to a person who deliberately destroys or obstructs something. It comes from the French word, saboter, which really and truly means to kick something with an old-fashioned wooden shoe.
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
Re: Derivation of the word 'Saboteur'
During the industrial revolution, protesting workers threw their wooden shoes called sabot into machinery, hence sabot-age.
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The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common:
They don't alters their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit the views.
They don't alters their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit the views.
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In those "dark, Satanic mills"
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."