You know, I never thought about the origin of that word before (commuting)

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Language Hat has an entry on the origin of the word “commute” (as in “travel back and forth regularly between two places, especially home and work”):

Do you know why someone who regularly spends a certain amount of time traveling back and forth between home and work is called a "commuter"? It's because the first people so called were using commutation tickets, what we now call season tickets, that commuted ('changed,' from Latin commutare) a bunch of daily fares into a single payment. (If you check the foreign equivalents linked at the left of the Wikipedia article, you find that a number of languages use a word or phrase meaning 'pendulum migration.')

Never thought about that, but that makes sense.

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