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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I think it is because they can fold up like an umbrella.
- Rich ZLv 71 decade ago
When it folds up you end up with a skinny cloth covered pole and a handle that is J-shaped like the handle of an umbrella. After you see one it is obvious where the name came from.
- angelbabyLv 71 decade ago
Because the handles are shaped like the handle on some old umbrellas, but upside down!
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- 1 decade ago
Because it folds up like an umbrella does and has those curved handles like old school umbrellas.
- ErikaLv 44 years ago
stable question, yet parasol - against the solar. As for the French umbrella, parapluie, - para - against, pluie - rain. so because it is clever. i like the assumption of folk asserting "umm" and figuring out on "!brella" and then the call beginning off. I heard an identical case that as quickly as the 1st settlers arrived in Australia, they observed a kangaroo bounding by potential of and asked the Aborigines "what's that?". the Aborigines replies of their very own language: "kanga roo" meaning "i don't be attentive to" and the call caught. So a kangaroo is quite an 'i don't be attentive to'. Hmmm, different ordinary names, how approximately stapler? A staple is something mandatory, including staple weight loss application. yet there is no longer something mandatory some metalstrip-bending paper clipper, is there? and how do raspberries supply their call to somebody 'blowing a raspberry' with a impolite sound? think approximately us going along with your questions!
- 1 decade ago
Because it folds up like one and your child is protected from the shade....like one!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
because it folds up like a umbrela