September 17, 2020: Today's Vocabulary Revelation (Which May Be News Only to Me) -

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Listening to health care providers from Harborview Hospital talk about putting on (and taking off) PPE to treat COVID patients, I learned that they say "don" and "doff" for these procedures.

And then....

later....

I realized that "on" is in "don," and "off" is in "doff."

WHOA.

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  1. CSWSeptember 17, 2020 at 11:01 AM

    Update: Reliable sources who have known this for freaking ever tell me that they are contractions of "do on" and "do off," and that this is "neato."

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    1. Glaven Q. HeisenbergSeptember 18, 2020 at 9:01 AM

      Deleted because I realized you can't really edit your comments

      Delete
    2. CSWSeptember 18, 2020 at 9:23 AM

      Yeah, but I can just give up and delete everything!

      Delete

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