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etymology - What is the origin of bootleg? - English Language Usage . . . 6 What is the origin of 'bootleg' ('bootlegger', 'bootlegging'), in the general sense of "illicit trade in liquor" (OED)? The Online Etymology Dictionary gives one possible origin, from 1889: As an adjective in reference to illegal liquor, 1889, American English slang, from the trick of concealing a flask of liquor down the leg of a high boot
word choice - In the Internet vs. on the Internet - English . . . I suppose the large number of "in" prepositions in the phrase can be explained like this: in many languages, including Russian we use the preposition which can be translated into English as "in" So what people often do when they don't know what the correct way is - they "copy" exactly as it's told in their native language I guess the number of native speakers who use the Internet is much
What is the word for a path that is made naturally by the action of . . . 12 They are called desire paths (also desire lines, social trails, goat tracks, bootleg trails, or intention lines) The philosopher Gaston Bachelard called them les chemins du désir (pathways of desire), so that's one possible origin of the term