According to etymonline, it’s from the French estandart meaning a military banner, or from the Medieval Latin standardum. These in turn possibly come from the old Frankish standhard, so literally to stand hard like a flag or a long-standing tradition.
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Paulemeister@feddit.org 1 day ago
What about standard
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
specimen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think there’s a wacky Japanese comic book about this
Stern@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d say its more bizarre than wacky.
ICastFist@programming.dev 18 hours ago
Don’t be too adventurous now