#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: https://youtu.be/QbuABBPej9E #SoulFoodMonth
#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #SoulFood #Cookbooks
I like the idea of language as incantatory rather than informative - when we do #opera or #poetry we separate the #words, or render them in a special alarming voice so that we can be reminded of or made to feel their power ... One of the reasons perhaps that I love #code - its a world where words are literally performative...
#art #language #philosophy
"Spuddle" - Old words are fun. Folks in the office here know I love words and sometimes they bring them to me unasked. Little gifts. This particular antique word has been me all week so it is perfect. Anyway: "to work feebly and ineffectively, because your mind is elsewhere or you haven’t quite woken up yet." https://forreadingaddicts.co.uk/word-of-the-day/word-of-the-day-spuddle/ #words
a garden abloom
a balm for the weary soul
an absolute joy!
#dailyhaikuprompt - abloom
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #haiku #smallpoems #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writers #artist #artistsofmastodon #words #modernart #abstract #abstractart #AYearForArt #poet #poem #peace #flower #flowers #floral #gardening #garden #painting #paintings #landscape #landscapes
#Obscurdle 152: 4/6
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https://www.stevedegroof.com/obscurdle.html
I'll admit I had to look this one up...
#obscurdle #puzzle #game #wordGame #words #wordleLike #wordle
The word ‘realise’ was in common usage in England over a century before the concept of realisation was introduced.
#realise #realisation #irealisedthen #itdawnedonme #english #words
Wordle 720 6/6
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#wordle #quordle #wordgame #words #puzzle #game
It’s #WorldOceansDay – so it’s a good time to learn more about the seas, and efforts to clean them up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kKFrUr9Ffk
#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Oceans #Sea
Reading last week’s copy of the New European and just learned that the Americans spell “skeptic” with a k because the root is from the Greek (‘skeptomai’, to think, consider), and we British spell “sceptic” with a c from the French and/or Latin versions of the Greek form. Every day is a school day, etc.
#words #spelling #CulturalDifferences.
#Obscurdle 151: 6/6
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https://www.stevedegroof.com/obscurdle.html
#obscurdle #puzzle #game #wordGame #words #wordleLike #wordle
Wordle 719 4/6
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m-w.com/games/quordle/
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#wordle #quordle #wordgame #words #puzzle #game
The surprisingly connected origins of "pride" and "represent".
#etymology #WordNerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #represent #pridemonth
roots of love run deep
anchor us to memories
long after leaves fall
#dailyhaikuprompt - roots
ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-roots-of-love-run-deep-sharon-cummings.html
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #haiku #smallpoems #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writers #artist #artistsofmastodon #words #modernart #abstract #abstractart #AYearForArt #poet #poem #peace #flower #flowers #floral #gardening #garden #painting #paintings #red #poppy #poppies #landscape #landscapes
#Obscurdle 150: 4/6
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https://www.stevedegroof.com/obscurdle.html
#obscurdle #puzzle #game #wordGame #words #wordleLike #wordle
Word of the Day: EGROTING – feigning sickness to avoid something you don’t want to do (eg. work, chores, your husband, lead the country during an unprecedented global pandemic)
#WordOfTheDay #dictionary #words #egroting #sickday #pullingasickie #skiving
Wordle 718 6/6
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m-w.com/games/quordle/
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Ran into the same problem with both these tonight, was able to just get the wordle, but 1 guess too many for the quordle
#fail
#obscurdle #puzzle #game #wordGame #words #wordleLike #wordle
Word of the Day: RAUSSCHMEISSER (German) - the last song played at a night club, as a signal that you need to quickly lower your standards.
a kiss of color
lightness and darkness unite
Art is life's soul food!
#dailyhaikuprompt - soul
*acrylic paint on canvas with medium paint pen. Circa 2010.
ART:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/soul-kiss-1-sharon-cummings.html
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/soul-kiss-2-sharon-cummings.html
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #haiku #smallpoems #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #writers #artist #artistsofmastodon #words #modernart #abstract #abstractart #AYearForArt #poet #poem #blue #orange #peace #soul #flower #flowers #floral #gardening #garden #painting #paintings
#Obscurdle 149: 5/6
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https://www.stevedegroof.com/obscurdle.html
#obscurdle #puzzle #game #wordGame #words #wordleLike #wordle
Wordle 717 3/6
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Quordle is no longer playing nice with me.... or maybe I'm not playing nice with it.... lots of fails lately
#fail #massiveFail
#wordle #quordle #wordgame #words #puzzle #game
To mark #WorldEnvironmentDay, here’s our video about the word “Tree”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl-WunKwjrY
#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Tree
#Obscurdle 148: 5/6
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https://www.stevedegroof.com/obscurdle.html
#obscurdle #puzzle #game #wordGame #words #wordleLike #wordle
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
"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
#Obscurdle 147: 4/6
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https://www.stevedegroof.com/obscurdle.html
#obscurdle #puzzle #game #wordGame #words #wordleLike #wordle
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.'
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
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.
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
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
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
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"
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
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 #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
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/
#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.
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
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. 😁
@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.
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
#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 ;)
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!
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.
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#Poems seem to grow with us. Often, it’s only we who are catching up with a #poem’s dimension.
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#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
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
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#today #JoinIn #introduction #WritingCommunity #gratitude #NewHere #TwitterMigration
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!
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/
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
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
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
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.
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."
@RyeBread
One more - Kerfuffle 🙂
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."
"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/