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A <- ox
B <- house
C <- some kind of weapon we don't even have a name anymore
D <- fish
And so on. This set has been running around for half of the world for thousands of years and yet nobody thinks it's a problem.
I wonder what other artefacts like that we have.
I'm sure some streamers use "Tune in", which refers to radio dialing.
"Dashboard" means a whole lot of things, but originally meant a board on a carriage that prevents mud from being "dashed" up to the passengers by horses (I think).
Uh..."meal" is literally a kind of grain that most people probably don't eat regularly at all, let alone 3x a day.
"Hanging up" the phone, as well as the icon for phon4 calls being a latter 20th century corded handset shape.