Etymology of the Word "Layover"?
Oct 30, 2014 | 4:30 pm
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Etymology of the Word "Layover"?
How is it that this is the word that came to describe our little stays at airports without leaving them? I genuinely don't know & Wikipedia didn't tell me.
Oct 31, 2014 | 4:21 am
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My first guess: back in the day, one could (and often would) get laid in a connecting airport.
Second guess: the mile high club was very inclusive when this term came about; pax used to get laid while flying and when they got to a connecting airport the lay was over.
Nowadays, some connections feel like "bend over, you're about to get... <ahem> laid". (CDG comes to mind...)
Second guess: the mile high club was very inclusive when this term came about; pax used to get laid while flying and when they got to a connecting airport the lay was over.
Nowadays, some connections feel like "bend over, you're about to get... <ahem> laid". (CDG comes to mind...)
Oct 31, 2014 | 10:09 pm
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lay
...and lots of airplane/airport-related terms are nautical in origin ("cabin", "port" and "starboard", even to "board" a plane).
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/layover
36. Nautical. to take up a specified position, direction, etc.: "to lay aloft; to lay close to the wind"
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/layover
1870-75, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase lay over