Talk:gas
Italian: carbon dioxide?
editItaliano:
gas may also mean acido carbonico, eg. in con gas concerning my language course — This unsigned comment was added by 79.195.231.123 (talk).
- No. It is just carbon dioxide - that is what is added to fizzy drinks. SemperBlotto (talk) 21:16, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Also something in cryptocurrency
edit"On the Ethereum blockchain, gas refers to the cost necessary to perform a transaction on the network. Miners set the price of gas based on supply and demand for the computational power of the network needed to process smart contracts and other transactions." Equinox ◑ 05:34, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
Derivations
editI guess the derivations would likely be from Learned Latin than Dutch, since Jan Baptist van Helmont seems to have written primarily in Latin. Wakuran (talk) 14:57, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
Pronunciation
editSome speakers pronounce this ending in /-z/ instead of /-s/, e.g. [1], [2], matching as and has. - -sche (discuss) 03:14, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
- There was an ad on the box not long ago in Britain which featured two cartoon characters called Gaz and Lecky, a pun on how some people in the North of England refer to gas and electricity. Of course we're supposed to imagine that these are nicknames and that the characters are properly called 'Gareth' and 'Alexa'. I've also heard some people in Birmingham (but mainly in the Black Country) say 'buz' and 'Gaz Street' and my mum said 'greazy' instead of 'greasy'. The 's-to-z phenomenon', to coin a phrase, seems quite widespread in the West Country and Scotland too, at least for certain words. We could mention that 'December' is often pronounced with a 'z' in Scotland and 'parsley' is often pronounced with a 'z' in Northern England too. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 15:09, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
Semantic shift of the English colloquialism?
editrn et. 2 is "clipping of gasoline", meaning 4 "Marijuana, typically of high quality."; I've seen this used, for quite some time, probably by extension, to mean anything good (as in "that shit was gas" can refer to any shit; this smells a lot like "dope") whereas ime et. 3 has declined Nabijaczleweli (talk) 12:19, 13 June 2024 (UTC)