I was corrected in that he used allegorical terms, but still. Stuff like that can also be considered a nickname.

Even without Shakespeare I can think of “agua,” “souse,” “sky nectar,” and “wet” all of which are nicknames I heard in the Chicago area in the 80s and 90s.

I didn’t know “souse” also referred to pickling brine or a drunkard until literally 20 minutes ago.

Edit: and “souse” was pronounced like the name of the fat guy in Gravity Falls.

It is really weird how you agreed with me and yet still said I was wrong.

It was the term used by the people that actually isolated the substance but, as England likes to do, they colonized the term to their standards and then pretended that was the right way.

Substance discovered by folks that called it alum or aluminum for literally five centuries then the Brits come galloping in to colonize the accepted name then try to look down on everyone else

…can someone get this guy a history book? Shakespeare alone used 14.