“Jar” originally could be used for larger containers too, like amphorae. It’s just nowadays people “defaulted” it to those small glass containers with (usually metal) lids.
…I want a jar of cookies. In the old sense of the word.
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baahb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
*jar" doesn’t really seem like the correct work for 10,000 anything unless its rice?
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Damage@feddit.it 2 days ago
It’s probably a translation thing. English probably got the word Jar from French but uses it in a slightly different way.