Duct tape or duck tape?
I had always assumed that it was properly called duct tape; I suppose I thought it was used in some ducting activities or construction. And I thought 'duck tape' was a simple, and not very clever, mispronunciation of that.
Turns out that the original tape was sticky stuff on a duck canvas or cloth (duck being a variation on the Dutch word 'doek'). 'Duct tape' appeared in the 60s, a gazillion years after 'duck tape' was invented.
So there you are, it's actually 'duck tape'.
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