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Why do we stand on our tiptoes and not our toetips?
I've been avoiding Twitter but where else am I going to ask these vital questions about wonky morphology
OED says "tiptoes" goes back to Chaucer: "He moste wynke … And stonden on his tiptoon" [also typton, typtoon, typtoos, tiptos]. Nothing on "toetips" 🤔
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