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  • That’s also kinda why tanks are called tanks today.

    When the British were building the Mark I Landship (world’s first “tank”) it was a top secret project. However there were hundreds of civilian workers working on the assembly lines. Expecting that workers would start questioning about what they were building, the British war department told the workers that they were building “water carrying tanks”.

    Then since no popular formal name was given to the new armoured vehicles, the name “tank” stuck.






















  • It’s basically shortened from Land’s Raider and Land’s Speeder.

    Although IMO the real reason is to make the names more copyrightable. GW has been making attempts to copyright the names of things in their universe. They attempted to copyright “space marine” (IIRC) and failed. Since “Land Raider” is a generic name that anyone could use, by saying that it’s named after this character in their universe they can perhaps claim copyright. But this is just my naive opinion, I am not a copyright lawyer.