I had only ever see trebuchet written, i had never heard it spoken. So young me thought it was pronounced tray-bucket. I was in my 40s before i finally heard someone discussing catapult vs trebuchet and realized it was french.
First, you get an ogre to bend a tree down to the ground. Then you fasten a bucket to the top of the tree, and put a rock in the bucket. Then you tell the ogre to let the tree loose, and the rock flies out and smashes your enemy’s castle.
I had only ever see trebuchet written, i had never heard it spoken. So young me thought it was pronounced tray-bucket. I was in my 40s before i finally heard someone discussing catapult vs trebuchet and realized it was french.
Well guess who’s pronouncing it tray bucket from now on
(It’s me)
Thanks for clarifying
Wow you are my spirit brother. I did the same and was relentlessly mocked by friends playing Age of Empires
First, you get an ogre to bend a tree down to the ground. Then you fasten a bucket to the top of the tree, and put a rock in the bucket. Then you tell the ogre to let the tree loose, and the rock flies out and smashes your enemy’s castle.
This is the invention of the tree-bucket.
That’s actually more of an onager-style catapult, not a trebuchet style one.
If it doesn’t use real Asiatic wild ass, it’s not an onager, it’s just a sparkling mangonel.