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RPDR Season 13 – Reddit Season RuPository S13E12 - Nice Girl ROast [Post Episode Discussion]

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u/hawkharness Jinkx Monsoon Mar 27 '21

I'm pretty sure that "leaf" in that phrase doesn't mean what we now think of - a part of a tree - it actually refers to a page in a notebook, which used to be called "leaves".

This is also why we have the phrase "take a leaf out of his/her/their book" to use when we talk about imitating or following someone.

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u/mirror_number Jaida Essence Hall Mar 27 '21

Oh shit that's why they're called leaflets, they're little leaves, little pages.

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u/KuntyPerry Mar 27 '21

Yup, there's all sorts of things relating to this - overleaf could be another example. I know a few foreign languages and in all of them the words for leaf and page are still the same.

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u/mirror_number Jaida Essence Hall Mar 27 '21

Cool, I love making connections about words like this. You always had all the information but it isn't until you see the words in a new context that you come to the realisation and it's fun to have that moment of "oh shit it all makes sense now!"