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by Mz 5602 days ago
I'm not sure how it ended up being a borrowed word used that way in US english.

Then you probably don't want to know what we did with your word for "shower".*

English is just weird like that, I think.

* Which is the same as the word for "shower" in German. I have some good stories from my childhood about such misunderstandings...