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5 Replies ・ Started by espiacent at 2019-06-26 08:39:10 UTC ・ Last reply by Eedra at 2019-11-27 04:25:01 UTC
This is a discussion about ホッチキス

origin of name

The inventor of staplers apparently was a person names George McGill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stapler). Hotchkiss seems to be the name of a at the time famous manufacturer of i.e. staplers (https://americanstationer.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/hotchkiss-no-1-stapler/).

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Leebo at 2019-06-26 11:36:29 UTC

Whether or not it's actually true or not (and the person who runs the dictionary database agrees that it's probably not source: http://nihongo.monash.edu/hotchkiss.html), if you check Japanese dictionaries, they will tell you that it's named after the Hotchkiss who invented it (source: https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E3%83%9B%E3%83%81%E3%82%AD%E3%82%B9) So it's kind of a mess, but I suppose they're just defaulting to what the Japanese dictionaries say.

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espiacent at 2019-06-26 19:27:53 UTC

Just wanted to add this info for anyone interested. Thanks for the links, especially the first one.

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aaronzandt at 2019-11-13 02:49:26 UTC
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Eedra at 2019-11-27 04:25:01 UTC

dang someone beat me to it. Here, have another copy of the link

http://nihongo.monash.edu/hotchkiss.html

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