Go back with 100 years and that’s exactly what you would hear it called. It is one of those insult terms like “God particle” or “big bang” † that were created by someone to mock something and it ended up becoming the actual name. Add in the usual vowel shifting and consonant drift that occurs over time and rabbit becomes rarebit.
Go back with 100 years and that’s exactly what you would hear it called. It is one of those insult terms like “God particle” or “big bang” † that were created by someone to mock something and it ended up becoming the actual name. Add in the usual vowel shifting and consonant drift that occurs over time and rabbit becomes rarebit.
† apparently I only know physics examples
I think the change from “rabbit” to “rarebit” was intentional in order to make it sound more serious, rather than just vowel drift.
The first time I heard of rarebit was 30 minutes ago on YouTube (discussing the name change) and now this pops up… Feels weird.
But also looks delicious.
Edit: I’m dumb, it was even on lemmy doom scrolling that I saw it: https://slrpnk.net/post/32169431
I watched that last night. It’s what made me want to make it, but a different version than his that I was more familiar with.
Oh interesting!!