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Comment by varsketiz

4 years ago

Took me a while to realize this is derived from the word duraBILITY. At first I thought this was a russian word being used...

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ljm  4 years ago

I thought it was called дура (stupid) because 'git' is slang for idiot.

ratww  4 years ago

It seems the previous name of the app was "Duralumin" and they just shortened to "Dura".

yosito  4 years ago

The root is Latin, duro, which means hard. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/duro#Latin

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