On Tue, 07 Jul 2020 19:59:20 +0200 Mathias Homann <Mathias.Homann@opensuse.org> wrote:
Am Dienstag, 7. Juli 2020, 19:26:10 CEST schrieb Carlos E. R.:
On 07/07/2020 16.31, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 07/07/2020 06:31, Carlos E. R. wrote:
/dev/sda1 is a bog-standard ext4, 150MB, mounted on /boot
What is "bog"? :-?
Context is Everything.
Never mind what 'bog' might mean, the use here is "bog-standard" which means 'vanilla' or 'off the shelf' or 'normal' or 'as sold & delivered.
I get that, but I still want to know what bog is :-) Dictionary says "swamp".
Actually, "bog-standard" is not just some idiom, at least its in the cambridge dictionary: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/de/worterbuch/englisch/bog-standard
this one's nice too:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bog-standard "from the unattested acronym BOG, allegedly short for British or German, referring to the supposed dominance of British and German engineering during Victorian times."
Hmm, see also http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bog1.htm But ... I've never heard the expression box-standard before, while I've been familiar with bog-standard as long as I can remember. Never really though about its etymology before.
XD Mathias
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