Surely “byce” or “bickle” would make more sense as a shorthand/colloquialism 👀

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      1 day ago

      So the proposal is that “bicycle” was replaced by something completely etymologically unrelated and that has never been productively used in English? I think that’s unlikely.

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      Eh, it’s a fruit that looks like a pinecone and white people are really unimaginative when naming things sometimes. Pineapple