Today's fun random discovery:

"Some words in English use (capital) letters to describe the shape of the object to which they refer: A-frame, C-clamp, I-beam, O-ring, T-shirt, T-intersection, T-bone, U-turn, V-neck [...]"

How about Chinese?

chinese.stackexchange.com/ques

(Found via twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/ with another nice example.)

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Also, Polish has an amusing variety of beams named after letter shapes (teownik, ceownik, zetownik, dwuteownik which IMO should rather be haownik but sadly isn't).

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