About what I expected.

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The question came up at supper yesterday of where the word "chopsticks" originated. It seems that the standard chinese 筷子 can be litterally interpreted as "bamboo things for eating quickly". Chop-chop is pidgen-English for 'quickly', and so they were called 'chop-chop sticks' and later just 'chopsticks'.

AFAIK, the 'chop-chop' term was considered somewhat derogatory (as it was usually used in giving commands to asian servants), but I'm not certain.