I’m putting up a drum set for sale on Facebook Marketplace, and my interface is set to French. Rare, but regularly, this brings something new. This time I learned that in French, a drum kit is called ‘la batterie’. It seemed, what does a battery have to do with it?
It seems that this happened because another meaning of this word is a set, a collection of something, for example une batterie de toilette – “a set of toiletries” or une batterie d’outils – a set of tools.
But in addition to that, there is also the verb battre – to beat. So, indeed, here two meanings intertwine. And of course, a battery also refers to a group of artillery guns or in the case of apartment heating, a set of heating elements. Such are the discoveries)
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