• Mouselemming
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    8 months ago

    Just for your future reference, the “o” in “bureau” (and therefore “bureaucracy” and “bureaucrat”) is spelled “eau” because French. The really confusing part is that the u is spelled u.

    And why is it a bureaucracy? It’s all about the desks.