humans just put certain expectations into the word.
... which is entirely the way words work to convey ideas. If a word is being used to mean something other than the audience understands it to mean, communication has failed.
By the common definition, it's not "intelligence". If some specialized definition is being used, then that needs to be established and generally agreed upon.
The cream would rehydrate them.
Jam is made with pureed fruit, while jelly is made from fruit juice. Colloquially, though, people use the terms interchangeably constantly.
I always hated the advice to make an L with your hands to see which one was Left. No one ever specified whether you're supposed to have your palms facing you or facing away, so it's ambiguous.
When I was a kid, I would picture a dining place setting because I knew the fork was on the left.
That article you linked was a really interesting read. Thanks!
I have it on pretty good authority that everyone
That's where your comment went wrong. Just about everything that anyone claims "everyone" does is false. Maybe "lots of people," "most people," or even "by far, most people" do a thing, but literally "everyone"? BS.
I don't like looking at breasts, and I have absolutely no interest in them.
Dude.
It's eth, actually, not thorn.
I had thought that eth was used in Old English for the voiced "th" and thorn for the unvoiced "th", but Wikipedia says they were used interchangeably for both sounds.
You're right otherwise. Thorn was not available on printing presses because they were being made in countries that didn't use the letter, which is why the letter Y was used instead until "th" became more common.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth