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Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

Why Is Guy Fawkes Associated With the Anonymous Mask?

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Why Is Guy Fawkes Associated With the Anonymous Mask?

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Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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    he is the origin of the word “guy” to refer to a general person, but he is definitely not the first person to ever be named Guy. for example, Sir Guy of Warwick is a character from English stories dating to the 13th century

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      Do we know if it was pronounced like the French do, similar to “ghee?”

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        Ouee.

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          Whee!

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      Or Guy of Gisburne.

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      Gay-Lussac’s law is the relationship of pressure to temperature. When teaching this law I emphasise its pronunciation “guy”.

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