Why did people start calling the bicycle a bike? Why not a bice?
A facsimile became a fax, but it would have easy to call is a fak, right?
I don’t get it.
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Fak was already taken:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fak
🙂
So was bike:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bike