Talk:Piggyback (transportation)

Format

The format of the entire bottom half of the article is off. The example text has only two line breaks and as such runs across the page, and the picture of the airplane is in the middle of the page, leaving much blank space between the intro and the law sections. (I don't know how to fix either at this point in my Wiki'ing and my laptop battery is running down too far for me to try and figure out, unfortunately.) CrashCart9 07:14, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

• Fixed both, also deleted 'multiple piggyback' picture as it was virtually the same as the 'child riding piggyback' one and wasn't as clear of an example. CrashCart9 07:23, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

cleanup

Science is yet to determine if a third human being can "piggyback" on the back of the second human being carried by the first and arguments abound as to what one would call this in English. "Triple-Stack" having once been authoritatively dismissed as "patent nonsense", we collectively have no name for the phenomenon and no evidence that it has ever been accomplished anywhere. Lrosenau 22:48, 15 May 2018 (PDT)

The "Improve credit score" section seems somewhat puzzling and confusing.

Kremso 14:50, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

It now appears to remain almost entirely conspicuous by its absence. InedibleHulk (talk) 22:15, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

Can anyone explain the etymology of this term? Seems like LOTS of animals do this, but pigs don't. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.70.113 (talk) 05:47, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes they do :-)

Seriously though, I checked the OED, and there seems to be considerable uncertainty, but they have some early quotations involving "pick pack" or "pick back", where "pick" is a northern England variation of "pitch" (i.e. pitching a pack / pitching on your back), so if I've read it right they are kind of suggesting that "piggy" is a corruption of "pick". Any quotations involving "pig" or "piggy" are a lot more recent and, they claim, "altered by folk etymology". — Alan^✉ 07:03, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

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