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A story on social media claims that the African-American boxer Jack Johnson invented the wrench while in prison, and the wrench was named "monkey wrench" as a racial slur. However, both the first patent for a monkey wrench and the name predate Johnson's birth. Johnson did, however, receive a patent for improvements to it. [14] [15]
A persistent hoax on social media claims that Johnson invented the monkey wrench and it was named a monkey wrench as a racial slur. Johnson did receive a patent for improvements which he made to the monkey wrench, [87] but the name "monkey wrench" and the first patent for it predate his birth by over 35 years. [88]
The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), published in 1975.. Abbey's most famous work of fiction, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the Southwestern United States, and was so influential that the term "monkeywrench," often used as a verb, has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to ...
Sor-Lokken's father said he wanted "to throw a monkey wrench into the government bureaucracy". [25] Her given-name length record was broken in 1984. [9] [26] Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff has also been catalogued by logologist Gyles Brandreth [27] and by The Book of Useless Information. [28]
Some of these, for example monkey wrench and wastebasket, originated in 19th century Britain. The mandative subjunctive (as in "the City Attorney suggested that the case not be closed") is livelier in American English than it is in British English. It appears in some areas as a spoken usage and is considered obligatory in contexts that are more ...
According to local media, South Korea expects to see 6.39 million cars on the highways, despite Tuesday’s heavy snowfall throwing a wrench into some travel plans.
We know monkeys can’t talk ... but what’s the difference between humans and primates that prevent them from doing so?
1.1 monkey wrench. 28 comments. 1.2 Onomatopoeia for the tree-falling sound. 9 comments. Toggle the table of contents. Wikipedia: Reference desk/Archives/Language ...