I've heard a few old timers call it "Adam's Ale", so it has at least one
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Fun fact: one of the oldest languages with an interpretation of the word "water" is Sumerian from over 3500 years ago.
It was pronounced "ay"
(like Fonzi, not eye)
Iβm betting there are many languages which predate that (which we donβt know of) that all have words for water.
You never heard a white guy mishandle some Spanish and call it "Aw Gwa"?
H2Oh yeah
H2flOw (stolen from my wife)
Ooooh. My wife is apparently a comedy thief.
~~Give your wife a high five for me. This one is solid.~~
Apparently, this is @ZooGuru@lemmy.world 's wife.
You mean, a fivy?
No no, it's liquid.
Also their wife:
Done and done.
I'd a mate that called it council pop.
In Scotland it's called "Cooncil Juice"
The Dutch use "gemeente pils" which means local government beer. So that is pretty similar.
True, but there shouldn't be a space between the words. Gemeentepils
Truebutthereshouldntbeaspacebetweenthewordsgemeentepils
Fixed that for you old chap
ThanksalotnowIcansleepcomfortably
Some of that double-H O
sky juice
It was grandfathered in from when there was no competition, and therefore no need for nicknames. "I need a drink" simply meant water. The beverage.
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People buy so many different fancy drinks... For me just tap is enough.
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Good ol' "Wawa."
When my little sister was about 3 she would only drink juice. One night i grabbed the juice pitcher, an empty jar and pretended too mix up some juice for her (we always had the frozen juice concentrate), as i poured a glass for her she asked what kind of juice is was. I said 'it is clear juice.'
I am in my 40s now, and she still asks me if i want a glass of clear juice.
My preschool teacher called it "sky juice."
I grew up in the desert, but our ground water is really high (places where it is wet at 13β). We probably would have called it ground juice instead.
Wawa? HΒ²0? The drink (golf term)?
Round where I'm from (north of England) people call it "council pop". I suppose the equivalent for the US would be "EPA soda" or "state cola" or something.
Pretty sure the nickname it gets is "H20"
A molecule with 20 hydrogens?
Liquid life is nice, but the only time I heard it was when referring to coffee.
Gimme some of that cleary deary
You could take the old 'would you support a ban on dihydrogen monoxide' thing a bit further and end up with:
Dihymo. (Die-Hai-Mo)
There ya go. Dumb nickname for water.
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Coochie juice lol
I thought it was called sky juice or cloud juice these days.
I mean, I say gimme a glass of h2o. I mean... I know it's the atoms but it's kinda a nickname.
It's an even more formal name.
It's "Sir H2O" to get the right amount of formal.
Aqua
ITT: the reason water doesn't have a nickname.
What if water is also the oldest nickname and its been so long that we forgot what the real name was
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