• Evkob (they/them)@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    You’re probably just making a joke, but that’s not the etymology of “cretin”.

    Cretin became a medical term for Congenital iodine deficiency syndrome in the 18th century, from an Occitan and an Alpine French expression, prevalent in a region where persons with such a condition were especially common.