Rob Watts (RobWords) @robwords.com · Apr 28 Today, I'm reading the book that gave us "shampoo". The word is a British attempt at the Hindi "Čāmpo!" which loosely means "Rub me!" The original "shampoo" was a massage with fragrant oils. In 1784, S. K. Mahomed moved to Brighton, UK, where he introduced Indian-style baths and wrote this book.
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Would you happen to know why shampoo in French is called "shampooing?" French never uses -ing to end words, unless it's borrowed from English. But in English, shampooing is the verb, not the noun.
The right hand page looks more like an advertisement for the printer, shouting as loudly as possible, "Look how many typestyles I have!"
I've always assumed it was sham-poo to make it clear it wasn't the real thing.💩
I'm kind of glad he didn't use the literal translation. XD