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The origin of the word English word "tip" is not clear. One popular theory says it's is an acronym of "to insure promptness." Jesse Sheidlower, Principal Editor in North America for the Oxford English Dictionary, says that's wrong, because acronyms weren't popular in English until the 1920s. "'Tip," says Sheidlower, "began as a verb in the seventeenth century, used in the language of thieves, meaning 'to give'." By the early eighteenth century, the meaning included "to give a gratuity to a servant or employee".
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What is the tip of the Q tip called?
Q- Tip tip
Where do you have to stand to tip the iceburge in Club Penguin?
It does not tip.
Tip of an iceberg?
Currently you cannot tip the iceberg.
What is The difference between k and K?
k is the lower case and K is the upper case. Why do we say so? In olden days, in the printing press, the letters, carved at the tip of lead cuboid, were placed in wooden arrays. Small letters usually were placed in the lower case and the capital letters were in the upper case. Hence the name. In SI system k, stands for kilo and K stands for Kelvin, the unit of temperature. K in chemistry stands for the element, Potassium.
What is the tip-to-tip length of a warrior's configuration bat'leth?
116 cm tip to tip, 5.3 kilos, handgrip diam. 5 cm. and ya im a suprnerd
