#Words

TIL, thanks to reading Dickens' David Copperfield, that the past participle of the verb, 'chide', used to be 'chid'. And now I want to bring it back!

"She gently chid me for being rude"
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#etymology #words #dickens

So there were 3 boys, 13, 13 and 15 that came up missing while out hunting wild pigs with their hunting dogs. The news article described the boys as "3 hunters missing" and I didn't find out how young they were until I read the article. I found this interesting wording by the local media, but I don't know why it struck me funny that they were called "hunters" in the headline and not "teenage boys go missing while hunting" or some such. People's choice of words are interesting to me. 🤔

They were found, so phew, but yeah. #words

June is #NationalSoulFoodMonth, and if you’re interested in the origins of Soul Food, we’ve got an endnote that talks about early African American cookbooks: youtu.be/QbuABBPej9E #SoulFoodMonth

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #SoulFood #Cookbooks

"The world is a fabric we weave daily on the great looms of information, discussions, films, books, gossip, little anecdotes. Today the purview of these looms is enormous - thanks to the internet, almost everyone can take part in the process, taking responsibility and not, lovingly and hatefully, for better and for worse. When this story changes, so does the world. In this sense, the world is made of words."
Olga Tokarczuk - Nobel Lecture
#Bookstodon #Words

The word ‘foist’ comes from 16th century gambling slang when it meant releasing a fart surreptitiously in order to distract the other players.

#words #slang #history #gambling #gaming #foist #moist #miasma #distraction

#Obscurdle 147: 4/6
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https://www.stevedegroof.com/obscurdle.html

#obscurdle #puzzle #game #wordGame #words #wordleLike #wordle

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#fail
#wordle #quordle #wordgame #words #puzzle #game

creativity
colorful Worlds deep within
begging to come out...

#575Prompt - worlds

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/yellow-and-blue-art-worlds-within-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #haiku #smallpoems #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writer #writers #artist #artistsofmastodon #words #collage #mixedmedia #modernart #abstract #abstractart #AYearForArt #poet #poem #gold #blue #mandala #meditation #peace

'This #book is a collection of aphorisms - bite-size observations that range from lighthearted quips to deeply spiritual proverbs.

It is eminently quotable and re-readable, and the #author strikes an excellent balance of tone and subject matter so that the book stays interesting throughout its brisk read time...

Great for fans of #micropoetry and #words of #wisdom.'

— @seanpatrickphd

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/quarantine-notes-yahia-lababidi/1143515787

@bookstodon #boost #poetry #WritingCommunity #spirituality #quotes #books #life

You know that yucky feeling that comes with being BLOATED?

It applies to content as well... BLOATED content feels HEAVY and DULL.

🎈Cut the word count by 20% and you'll feel it start to breath and rise! #words #marketing #writing

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Sue's News: A Round-Up of Screw Yous https://jezebel.com/sues-news-a-round-up-of-screw-yous-1850497319 #Jezebel #presidencyofdonaldtrump #englishprofanity #amyconeybarrett #soniasotomayor #interjections #brianlaundrie #gabbypetito #donaldtrump #etymologies #rondesantis #linguistics #kimreynolds #sexualslang #elenakagan #alexandria #leonardleo #chickfila #elonmusk #contents #roberta #casey #words #fuck

soft circular thoughts
a meditation of hope
There is peace within...

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/green-abstract-geometrical-art-peace-within-sharon-cummings.html

#575Prompt - circular

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #haiku #smallpoems #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writer #writers #artist #artistsofmastodon #words #collage #mixedmedia #modernart #abstract #abstractart #AYearForArt #poet #poem #green #blue #mandala #meditation #peace

🧠DID YOU KNOW?

There are 7 ways to spell the sound ‘ee’ in English. This sentence contains all of them:

“He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas”.

#words #writing #trivia

#Obscurdle 145: 4/6
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https://www.stevedegroof.com/obscurdle.html

#obscurdle #puzzle #game #wordGame #words #wordleLike #wordle

Word of the Day: PETARADE — a series of farts.

Thus “Hoist by your own petard” and “Hoist by your own petarade” can actually be used interchangeably.

#WordOfTheDay #dictionary #words #farts

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#wordle #quordle #wordgame #words #puzzle #game

- #Words -

“There’s poetry
hiding under
my tongue,
turning my
chaos into art,
and every time,
it saves me.”

#Poetry ~ Stephanie Bennett-Henry

she speaks my language.
i adore her.
💜

https://stephaniebennetthenry.wordpress.com/poetry/

The origin of the phrase 'red herring'. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/562812/where-did-phrase-red-herring-originate #Words #English #Language

Source: https://twitter.com/Smart_Translate/status/1664346073865895936

The #medieval origins of phrases such as “the apple of one’s eye” and “by hook or by crook”. https://www.medievalists.net/2023/05/ten-phrases-middle-ages/ #history #words #languages #english @histodon @histodons @medievodons

Source: https://twitter.com/Medievalists/status/1664295169850593283

2023 0601 d'où sortent les mots ?
https://micheldesjardins.substack.com/p/dou-sortent-les-mots?sd=pf
#art #mastoart #words #mots #montreal #2023 #streetphotography #photographie #rue

Happy #DinosaurDay! Our video about the history of paleontology has all sorts of fun dinosaur trivia for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9yNwRBlKtU

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Dinosaur #Fossil #Paleontology

Apparently it’s #NationalOliveDay? Well, if you want to learn a bit about the etymology and historical importance of olive oil, we cover that in, surprisingly, our video on “Linoleum”! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy5fkezJx7A

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Olive #Linoleum

The word ‘tyre’ comes from ‘attire’, if you don’t look too closely.

#etymology #words #dictionary #lexicon #tyre #attire #QI #NotQI

#Obscurdle 144: 4/6
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https://www.stevedegroof.com/obscurdle.html

#obscurdle #puzzle #game #wordGame #words #wordleLike #wordle

Wordle 712 X/6

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#Fail

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#DoubleFail
#wordle #quordle #wordgame #words #puzzle #game

#words #FreeSpeech #writers #journalists #censorship #despots #communism #Trumpism #fascism

stationary clouds
acrylics of white on blue
this canvas of words

#amwriting #nature #observations #haiku #senryu #3lines #painting #spring #canvas #art #creativity #words

The surprisingly connected origins of "mow" and "aftermath". #NoMowMay

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mt8WiTpGvRs

#etymology #WordNerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #mow #aftermath

stanch or staunch?

hm.

#words
#vocabulary
#copyedit

This lyric, from "I and Love and You" by the Avett Brothers, is on a par with Joni Mitchell

"That woman, she's got eyes that shine
Like a pair of stolen polished dimes"

It puts me in mind immediately of the lyrics in the opening lines of #JoniMitchell's "That Song About the Midway"

#music
#lyrics
#words
#heart

Have you ever seen something so beautiful it made you cry? That’s COMMUOVERE in action.

🌸COMMUOVERE is an Italian word describes the feeling of being moved, touched, or stirred by something you witness or experience.

#words #writing

#Obscurdle 143: 4/6
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https://www.stevedegroof.com/obscurdle.html

#obscurdle #puzzle #game #wordGame #words #wordleLike #wordle

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#wordle #quordle #wordgame #words #puzzle #game

May linkfest! Doodly-squat, sex pest, unique baby names, renamed military bases, and more. https://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2023/05/may-linkfest.html

#names
#words
#linkfest

https://youtu.be/mVa3fi4FPkA

WILDER SPELLS: LACERATE

#spelling #words #wizard #writer #comedy #philosophy #poem #spokenword #poetry #poet #weirdart #weird #strange #dark #mysterious #etymology #history #art #fun #odd #timburton #WWDITS #whatwedointheshadows #davidlynch #alanwatts #georgecarlin #laceration #deepcut #gash #slit #slash #wound #injury #bleeding #lace #grammy

56 Delightfully #Unusual #Words for Everyday Things
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/56-delightfully-unusual-words-for-everyday-things

promises anew
an inscription on my heart
they are only words

#MastoPrompt 5/30/23 - #inscription

**This piece is a mixed media collage using old book pages, pebbles and paint.

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/abstract-landscape-art-only-words-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #haiku #smallpoems #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writer #writers #artist #artistsofmastodon #vintage #words #collage #mixedmedia #modernart #abstract #abstractart #AYearForArt #poet #poem

@picardtips :#words can be your most powerful tools', especially if you throw them....namely crowded in books

... и главное не перепутать вазэктомию с эвтаназией.

#thoughts #medicine #fun #words

It, um, amuses me a fair bit that kids know what these cages over the corks are called (see AltText)
/Also that the sheath at the end of a shoelace is an aglet/

#Words

#LGBT #words were #inscribed on #seized #Swatch #watches, #claims #source

“We seized hundreds of watches and all of them had the '#LGBTQ’ written on the face of the watch.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Malaysia #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia https://www.thesundaily.my/local/lgbt-words-were-inscribed-on-seized-swatch-watches-claims-source-ID11036178

If you're interested in nouning and verbing, and especially if they bug you, try this quiz I wrote for Macmillan Dictionary a few years ago:
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/learn/language-quizzes/nounings-and-verbings.html

Discussion here: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2018/05/16/verbing-and-nouning-are-fine-and-heres-a-quiz/

#language #words #grammar #linguistics #LanguageChange #verbing #nouning #quiz #LanguageHistory

I've seen "solution" verbed quite a bit, as in "Let's solution that", but until today I don't remember seeing its complement, the nouning of "solve": "What are the solves?"

Rule 1 of verbing and nouning: It's nearly always older than you think. OED's first citation for "solve" as a noun? 1780.

#language #words #grammar #OED

50 days after Easter Sunday is Whitsunday, or Pentecost. It's known as a 'moveable feast', since Easter Sunday isn't a fixed date. The Monday after is a public holiday in many European countries. File this under 'I didn't know that'. It's the day that the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles. (from the wiki.) I hope no one was hurt. The pic attached is an EXACT representation of that day. I suspect they'd just eaten a Scotch bonnet or two but what do I know?

#pentacost #words #holidays

REGULARLY and OFTEN aren't synonyms.

If something happens REGULARLY then it happens at regular, ordered intervals, or in a predictable, uniform way.

How OFTEN or seldom is happens isn't part of the definition.

#words #language #writing

Grease is the word. Wheelbarrow is also the word. Courgette, that's the word too. And vermillion - word. Fandango, cock, biscuit - all words.
#Words

A delightful irony: my most viewed Instagram reel, now over 8 million views, is about remixing words into books while the world encounters #GenerativeAI offering to “change the world” by rearranging #words into things.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrdbeLTtBQe/
#WritersStrike #WGAStrong #LLM #AI

Q: What do you call a book about all the things you should have done with your life?

A: An OUGHTABIOGRAPHY

😂#wordplay #words #pun #playonwords

GRIZZLY actually means "gray-haired".

📣A horrible situation can be GRISLY but not GRIZZLY.

#words #writing #language

Also in that episode ...

Dax looks at Ben Sisko's dinner and say 'Yum, aubergine stew!'

Why she not call it 'Eggplant stew'? :think_bread:

I think this is something we all need an answer for.

#Words #English #DS9

CJRT, a jazz FM station in Toronto, used to be on the campus of Ryerson University, now Metropolitan University. The old station used to air 'My Word', a very funny and educational BBC show. Here are some snips and bits from the Internet Archive. If you're into words, have a listen.

#radio #words #bbc (Not THAT bbc, by the way)

https://archive.org/details/ClassicRadioMyWordHomeRecordings/My+Word+-+%22A+little+touch+of+Harry+in+the+night%22%2C+%22None+but+the+brave+deserves+the+fair%22+(incomplete).mp3

Happy #Shavuot! If you’re preparing to celebrate, or just want to know more about the holiday and some of its unexpected connections, you could watch our video about the word “Sabbath”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kB0ShV8IDU

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Sabbath

Ten #words (or phrases) to be included in the Oxford #Dictionary of African American English #language and a look at the project through the eyes of dictionary nerd Henry Louis Gates. #linguistics #lexicon https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/style/african-american-english-oxford-dictionary.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I got to talk about Old English on NPR’s Weekend Edition! Listen here. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/21/1177391811/hana-videen-on-her-book-the-wordhord-daily-life-in-old-english #OldEnglish #npr #language #books #medieval #MiddleAges #words

You know when you're watching a movie or something on TV, and a word pops up that you really want to write down for future reference; for when you work on your novel?

Yeah, that happened in the middle of a movie just now. 😁

#Words #AmWriting #Writing

Why people so complainy about #words and #grammar and stuff in #English?

I mean, if understand you what saying I am, then what's the problem?

#OldEnglish #WOTD: bōc-cynn, n.n: a kind of book. (BOAK-KUEN / ˈboːk-ˌkyn)
Today I’m excited to announce my next bōc… THE DEORHORD: AN OLD ENGLISH BESTIARY. Coming this November!
#NewBook #words #medieval #animals #bestiary

@AmyDentata Artifical-Intelligence: oxymoron. Sadly we live at a time when we modify the meaning of words in order to justify, or proof, any misleading, false, and/or preposterous position.

#AI
#Words
#Truth
#Facts

Happy #LoveATreeDay! Have an arboreal etymology to celebrate! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl-WunKwjrY

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Tree

@SocraticEthics ⬆️

#Words are not enough.

lopsided thinking
resentment never heals you
Kindness is the balm...

#MastoPrompt - lopsided

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/gratitude-and-kindness-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #artist #artists #AYearForArt #poetry #haiku #writing #writingcommunity #feathers #colorful #kindness #kindnessmatters #life #communication #human #HumanArtist #ArtIsHuman #quotes #quote #words

#Picture worth a thousand #words…

#freespeech #ElonMusk #twitter #politics #corruption #erdogan #Turkey #ethics

It’s #WorldCocktailDay! So what better time to pour yourself a drink and settle in to learn all about the history of the cocktail, and some of the fascinating connections of some iconic drinks, with our Cocktail playlist! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlDwZNRMgsJK9YKaDhE7Gl-xQ_O2Ur8ZC

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Cocktail

Want to hear something major? How about 2 bonus clips from our recent interview with The Slowdown's Major Jackson! Happy weekend, #Hivemind! Listen at https://bit.ly/TomtitBaobab_MajorBonus1 and https://bit.ly/TomtitBaobab_MajorBonus2 or wherever you get your #podcasts. #nytsb #spellingbee #NYTSpellingbee #wordnerds #wordplay #majorjackson #theslowdown #poetry #music #language #words

@Magpieboy @bookstodon Yes, I’ve only read him in translation, too. Then, again, all #words — even our so-called native tongue — are translations of the #Spirit … With such #poetry of the depths, it is something beyond #language that speaks to us…

Happy #LimerickDay! In lieu of a (bad) limerick of our own, we’ll point you to our video about Verse, which talks about the basics of poetic form, including the limerick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxFzgH0y9Jw

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Limerick #Verse #Poetry

Betwaddled means confused. I need to start using it my daily life ;)

#english #NewWord #words #somerset #zummerzet

I learnt a new #Somerset word yesterday: betwaddled.

Have you ever heard it? Know what it means?

I'll pop the answer in the comments!

#words #dialect #slang #westCountry

The surprisingly connected origins of "chaste" and "castle".
#ytshorts

https://youtube.com/shorts/l57YLzhpd4Q

#etymology #WordNerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #chaste #castle

My new weekly installment in Metapsychosis: #journal of #consciousness, #literature & #art:

Never mind #poetry or prose, good #literature is the art of friction.
✨
#Poems seem to grow with us. Often, it’s only we who are catching up with a #poem’s dimension.
✨
#Writing is a kind of echolocating—to discover our tribe.

https://www.metapsychosis.com/collections/quarantine-notes/

via @madrush

#WritingCommunity #ai #inspiration #motivation #wisdom #spirituality #meditation #poetrycommunity #quotes #words #books #life

Category:Society and Culture
Level:Medium
Question:Which of these words relates to a family of dialects descended from the Ancient Egyptian language?
#words #language #society_and_culture

Category:Science
Level:Hard
Question:What is the more common name for the plant Viscum Album?
#plants #words #science

Big Thank You to the 1,000 kind, curious souls who follow me on #Mastodon & to #Fediverse for giving me a home away from #Twitter for the past 4 months 🐘

I do hope the #words, #art & #poetry that I post continue to keep you good company & look forward to sharing & learning more from you, in the future

✨🙏🏼✨

#today #JoinIn #introduction #WritingCommunity #gratitude #NewHere #TwitterMigration

i have a question! so i'm making a poll. 😅

#Poll #Question #Thinking #Thoughts #Aphantasia #Text #Music #Art #Feelings #Words #Hyperphantasia #ADHD #Autistic #AuDHD #Writing #NeuroDiversity

when you think in your head, how does that work? do you think in:

An older blog post I keep finding reasons to share because "guys" is not a gender-neutral word. https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2018/09/hey-were-not-all-guys-why-i-dont-use.html #Words #WordsMatter #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #grammar #guys #Women #Writing #PublicSpeaking

"Waste" means "trash." The "waist," with an "i," lies between the ribs and hips. Credit Johnson's dictionary of 1755 with popularizing the "i" spelling. #tips #words #editing #writing

love song
noun
A lyrical, musical, or poetic expression of romantic love

In·fix
noun
/ˈinˌfiks/
A formative element inserted in a word.

#grammar #words #rock #punk #garage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w0qhVkmXVw

Happy #MuseumLoversDay! Did you know that ‘museum’ and ‘music’ are related words? We got into that in our video on Music, but we talked about the early history of museums in this Endnote: https://youtu.be/tbvvu2NDL-A

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Museum

It’s #BirdDay! So here are some bird etymologies to celebrate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HITkoa7q5J0

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Birds

#ScifiBundle

I know you all love fighting oppressive systems! Even if you're the only person willing to do what’s necessary.Time to sabotage the

Operation Swordbreak

"The Regime never stops, devouring planets and hope. Once The Weapon is complete, resistance won’t exist. You are a spy"

Find this solo Wretched&Alone, recording secret messages, game in the Scifi bundle https://itch.io/b/1790/sci-fi-is-the-best
& authors on https://catscratcher.itch.io

#TTRPG #SoloClub #RPGLatam #StarWars #CosmicHorror #cards #words

As a professional #writer for 30 years who, more often than not, is underpaid for my #writing, this Writers Guild Strike hits close to home …

Please, pay #writers, people; #words make the #world go round :

https://deadline.com/2023/05/writers-guild-strike-begins-1235340176/

#WritingCommunity #activism #news #TV #Hollywood #film #movies #media #entertainment #Tuesday #wga #wgastrong #wgastrike #Netflix #amazon #apple #disney #sony #ParamountPlus #today #JoinIn

I really feel the need to differentiate the words we use for cargo bikes of the types/styles/sizes mostly used for business and industry, and those often used by regular people to carry children and groceries in their daily lives.

We have a ton of different words, yet AFAIK we all mix them up and use them interchangeably for all the wildly different bicycles like these…

At least that's how we do it in Norway. If there's a distinction in English, please tell!

#BikeTooter #Words #Linguistics

SMILE

https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/smile-handlettering-ink-on-paper-karen-kaspar.html

#smile #MastoArt #art #AYearForArt #drawing #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #MastodonArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #kunst #contemporaryArt
#creativeToots #ArtBooster #ink #happiness #happy #words #WordArt #blackAndWhite

Some in-house styles insist on capitalization of titles wherever they appear, but a job title is not a proper noun and it's almost never unique. In my mind, lowercase titles project more confidence. Uppercase suggest we are trying to prove something. #rant #words #amediting

"Portugal has always been a small and relatively powerless state, except for a period in the 15th and 16th centuries when the Portuguese became the first European power to explore the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans. Despite the relatively short time that they were in Southeast Asia, they left behind linguistic and cultural footprints that are still visible (or audible) today."

https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/vol-19/issue-1/apr-jun-2023/portuguese-legacy-southeast-asia/

#History #SoutheastAsia #Portugal #Languages #Words

If you like words and stuff, #ThatWordChat is on Mastodon as @ThatWordChat. Follow for updates from the show and live tweets of every episode. #words #lexicography #editing #writing

"Weak" is spelled with an "a," as are associated words anemic, ailing, atrophied. "Week" has a double "e," as does seven, as with "seven days make a week." #tips #words #editing #writing

Library? Bücherei, "bookery".
Dictionary? Wörterbuch, "word book".
Orthography? Rechtschreibung, "right writing".
Capital? Großbuchstabe, "big letter".
The other capital? Hauptstadt, "head city".

I could go on. There's so much Greek and Latin and French mixed into English, and it often feels so unnecessary. The literal translations often sound entirely understandable.

Any other examples that come to your mind? Also in other languages?

3/3

#German #English #language #words

The Fedilab client @apps had a notification "Fetching messages" and I keep reading the first word as an adjective rather than a verb.

Like "Damn, those are some fine looking, fetching messages" and I think I prefer my take.

Verbing weirds language, but adjectiving beautys it.

#words

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." – Mark Twain #writing #words #quotes

subtle scent
via favouring wind
the ole tree blossoms

#Imagiku prompt -> apple

#OutsiderArtist #Spring #SpringThing #SpringTime
#Bird #BirdPhotographer #Birds #Nature
#NaturePhotography #Photography #Haiku #Poetry #Poets #Writer #Pen #Prairie #March #Canada #Words #PoetryCommunity
#WritingCommunity
#SmallPoems #AmWriting
#CanadaPen #OutsiderArtists

A group of #zebras is called a dazzle.
A dazzle of zebras.

#TermsOfVenery #AnimalGroupNames #animals #wildlife #nature #english #AnimalGroupingNouns #trivia #fun #words #mammals #zebra

Silences Make The Real Conversations Between Friends..get it here..https://tina-lecour.pixels.com/featured/silences-make-the-real-conversations-tina-lecour.html

#quotes #quote #inspirational #words #birds #bird #birdsite #whimsical #nature #spring #art #artist #artwork #arte #artmatters #home #homedecor #wallart #naturelovers #buyintoart #ayearforart #theartdistrict #springforart #yellow #gifts #giftideas #mothersday #print

Happy to see that the #LeagueOfTheLexicon game is doing so well! I contributed a few #OldEnglish related questions. https://www.thejc.com/news/news/word-up-the-language-quiz-that-has-set-celebrity-tongues-wagging-73W1WR4nczMlTxqp2HDkwv #words #games #language

(Yes, #ChatGPT wrote this. I asked it for a sonnet that expresses the thoughts: "If you're feeling disheartened, because you've discovered that ChatGPT writes better #poetry than you, 100 times faster, please don't let it stop you from writing poetry. It's still important that you express your #heart using your #words and your #voice.")

Just saw the phrase "I wung it" on a recipe blog. #words

Just discovered that a group of parrots is called a pandemonium.

And I’m quite happy about that.

#birds #words

Saw a "flauts the conventions" in the wild recently: a rare mix of "flouts" (the standard verb here) and "flaunts" (a nonstandard choice). Maybe the writer plays the flute?

Fwiw, I wrote here about whether the flout/flaunt distinction matters: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/02/03/flaunt-this-distinction-dont-flout-it/ #editing #amediting #spelling #language #EnglishUsage #copyediting #words

@grammargirl So, so many wonderful things about language to love! Sound, meaning, how it looks on the page, evolution of meaning....

A line I use every once in a while to prompt people to think about the flexibility of language: All blackbirds are black birds, but not all black birds are blackbirds.

#GrammarDay #linguistics #words #WordPlay

It’s #NationalGrammarDay! To celebrate, here’s a short video on the surprisingly murky development of a basic piece of English grammar, the pronoun “She” https://youtu.be/sbzbdMym8wA

#She #Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Words #HistoricalLinguistics

Very British Political Commentary - Dictionaries
#Words #UK #Humour #JohnsonTheLiar #UKPolitics

It's official - the Wordhord is now up and running on Mastodon! Follow for your #OldEnglish #WOTD, which will start tomorrow, assuming I've correctly set up scheduled posts. I'm still on Twitter (@OEWordhord), Facebook and Instagram, plus there's my blog oldenglishwordhord.com. And did I mention there's a book? Find out more at bit.ly/WordhordBook. #medieval #medievodons #histodons #history #words

"There was an ancient civilization that could speak Tree.
They could understand the language of roots and the noise of fungi, a highly developed tongue, difficult to translate. They refused to write down the sounds because they could hear the molecules of the papyrus crying.”

-From Heather Altfelt’s, “Every Day Another Language Dies"
https://lithub.com/every-day-another-language-dies/

#language #history #words #loss #trees #StormKing #LandscapePhotography #PayingAttention

A group of #puppies is called a piddle.
A piddle of puppies.

#TermsOfVenery #AnimalGroupNames #animals #wildlife #nature #english #AnimalGroupingNouns #trivia #fun #words #mammals #puppy #DogsOfMastodon

No surprise, I loved today's A Word a Day: pinion.

"In the beginning, to bird was to catch a bird.

It took us some 350 years to realize that we can watch from a distance instead.

The first citation of the verb bird meaning to watch birds is from 1917."

https://wordsmith.org/words/pinion.html

#words #AWordADay

@RyeBread
One more - Kerfuffle 🙂

#Words
#WordsMatter
#WordNerds

Loving this interview with poet Jane Hirshfield, about birdcalls and wildfire and favorite words. But the part that arrested me: "I'm content to be entirely forgotten." She's happy for her work "to become part of the general compost from which new words, phrases, lives, understandings, relationships to existence and one another arise."

#poetry #life #compost #words

https://orionmagazine.org/article/jane-hirshfield-orion-questionnaire/?mc_cid=b9ffa57398&mc_eid=af09d1207d

"I like #words, and I like to explain things... so the mystery of #music is a bit unsettling. And yet, in that respect, music is a bit like my #faith... isn’t there an element of faith which is just #inexplicable? Don’t we all sometimes feel that we believe, because we just do? And isn’t #God, ultimately, inexplicable?"

A #mystery beyond #words: #sermon for #Transfiguration #Sunday, 19 February 2023
#preaching #Christian #Christianity
https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/2023/02/19/a-mystery-beyond-words-sermon-for-transfiguration-sunday-19-february-2023/