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The shortest word that still costs you your pride to say.
means To give aid or assistance to someone who needs it — or to ask for it yourself.
from Help traces back to Old English 'helpan,' part of a wider Germanic family (related to German 'helfen' and Dutch 'helpen'). Beyond that Germanic root, its deeper origins fade into unknown prehistory — one of those sturdy, ordinary words that was already old when written language caught up with it.
- irony
- people google it before asking a human
- toddler era
- one of the first words humans learn to demand
- workplace version
- disguised as cc-ing your boss
- true form
- a question mark wearing a cape