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yorwba • today at 10:39 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Etymonline disagrees: https://www.etymonline.com/word/fire


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jareklupinski • today at 11:06 AM

it seems to agree haha:

> The sense of "sack, dismiss from employment" is recorded by 1877 (with out; 1879 alone) in American English.

> Research had found a firm called Thomas Austin Brick & Tile Makers, based at Clay Hills, Stoke-on-Trent in 1820

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