#Linguistics You know how sometimes we name weapons after women? Like we might paint "Big Bertha" on the side of a giant fuckoff artillery deal mounted on a naval ship?

Well when cannons were newish they did this, too. There was one particular canon that was famous because it was so big and the folks that owned it had named it Queen Gunhilde. So there was a lot of copy catting of that name. And this common name for cannons eventually got shortened to just Guna. +