• fayoh@sopuli.xyz
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    7 months ago

    Fun fact speaking of regional things, in Swedish they are called “insex” (as in six on the inside)

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      7 months ago

      In Dutch they are called “inbus”, which apparently comes from the German name “Innensechskantschraube Bauer und Schaurte”, where Innensechskantschraube means inside six sided screw and Bauer und Schaurte is the company who patented the screw type.

      I have no idea how the name inbus came to be