No it isn’t, someone on Tumblr just made that up
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Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 10 months ago“Blood is thicker than water” is actually “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb”
FishFace@piefed.social 10 months ago
wieson@feddit.org 10 months ago
Some time ago I looked it up, because I feared the same. There’s actually medieval examples of the full phrase.
FishFace@piefed.social 10 months ago
There is a good writeup on the English Language stack exchange and on Wikipedia all of whose early sources are for the normal version or things like it
If you have a better citation, please share, but since they only find the Tumblr version from the 1990s I’m saying it’s bollocks.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
tumblr existed in the 90s?
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 10 months ago
This is one of my favorites because the shortened version is the actual opposite of the original. My family used the short version a lot hearing the long version for the first time felt kind of liberating :D
MrConfusion@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you read the Wikipedia article on the matter though, the long form given here does not seem to be “the original” by any means.
The “short” proverb is many hundred years old. The “long form” first appeared in the 1990s by a specific author.
It’s more an interpretation to negate an old proverb that the author disagreed with than anything.
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 10 months ago
A little sad, but thanks for adding this!
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Damn bro, what a rollercoaster