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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

IT IS SEPTEMBER! WHY IS IT STILL IN THE 90s?!? 🫠

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords @CBee

wildwoodreads I fear it will stay in the nineties until late October here in Alabama 🥵 3d

BookmarkTavern @wildwoodreads Oof! And you‘re dealing with the humidity too! 🫠 3d

wildwoodreads @BookmarkTavern Yeah it‘s rough lol. And honestly it‘s been in the high seventies on Christmas Day more times than I can count. One year we played basketball and I wore a tank top. 😂 3d

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dabbe PERFECT word for Phoenix, too. It's been in the low 100s but with humidity above 60%. I love when the weather channel writes: Actual temp: 102. Feels like 108. 😳Yeah. Thanks, weather gods! 😂🔥😂 3d

CBee @wildwoodreads I‘m in Alabama too - hi! And 🥵😭 3d

wildwoodreads @CBee Hi, neighbor! What part are you from? I‘m in Northeast AL. 3d

TheBookHippie It was coool here then bam today it was 80 3d

CBee @wildwoodreads about 20 miles south of Birmingham 👋🏻 3d

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dabbe

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#weirdwordwednesday @CBee 🧡🩶💜

CBee Love that last meme - “get your mythological suffering straight” 😂😂 Denise, you know the way to my heart! Mythology!! 3d

dabbe @CBee I try! 💜😂🧡 3d

lil1inblue @CBee @dabbe That meme is fantabulous. 😍 😂 1d

dabbe @lil1inblue 🤩😂😍 1d

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Every wondered about the origin behind the word, Wednesday? And why isn‘t it pronounced Wed-nes-day, so weird. Anyway, here you go! I always thought the days of the week were all named for Roman gods - nope! #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords
Also, an article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/02/why-wednesday-the-days-of-the-week...

CBee @Megabooks @Daisey @TheBookHippie @Amiable @vivastory @Catlass007 @mandarchy @dabbe @IndoorDame @peanutnine @psalva @sace @slategreyskies @Lil1inblue @Deblovestoread @BookmarkTavern @Cuilin @Kerrbearlib @jen_the_scribe @CindyMyLifeIsLit (edited) 3d

TheBookHippie Oh this is fascinating!!!! 3d

CBee @TheBookHippie I thought I was being lazy by actually choosing the word “Wednesday” but, it ended up being a lot more interesting 🤓 3d

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TheBookHippie @CBee it‘s really fun. Look how smart you are!!! 3d

CBee @TheBookHippie aw gee 💚💚💚 3d

CatLass007 It really should be pronounced Wed-nes-day. 3d

TheBookHippie @CatLass007 💯 3d

Bookwomble I've always pronounced it wed-ns-day 🤷🏻‍♀️ 3d

Daisey Great choice for today‘s word! 3d

kspenmoll I thought the same, from the Romans. This was such fun!!!! 3d

BookmarkTavern How cool! 🤩 3d

dabbe I love learning new things! Thanks, m'dear! 🧡🩶💜 3d

CBee @Bookwomble I say “Wensday” 🤷‍♀️😂 3d

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🤩👍🏼💝💝💝 I loved when I first learned about this...also Woden connects with the God Odin, the chief Norse God. 3d

CBee @AnnCrystal yes, I read that! I really need to read more Norse mythology. (edited) 3d

AnnCrystal @CBee ☺️👌🏼 mythology is incredibly fun.

The name connection for Thursday is my favorite.

Funny thing, is that I've learned a boatload of legends from around the world and realized a few years ago that (in comparison) I know so little about the legends from my own ancestral world 😂🤔🥺 I'm currently on a journey to correct this about myself ☺️💫📚💝. (edited) 3d

Cuilin I love stuff like this!!!! Thank you for sharing. 3d

CBee @AnnCrystal that sounds fascinating! Best of luck on your journey 💚 3d

CBee @Cuilin yay! So glad 💚 3d

lil1inblue I love this! Etymology is fascinating. 💫 🌟 💫 2d

CBee @lil1inblue the stars you added remind me of “the more you know” 😂😊💚 1d

lil1inblue @CBee That was what I was thinking about! I'm glad someone understood my thought process. 🤣 1d

CBee @lil1inblue from your posts and interacting with you a little, I think I can follow along pretty well. In the midst of our meteorology joint pain journey, we could also start a #randomthoughtsclub 😂😂 1d

lil1inblue @CBee 💓 💓 💓 1d

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dabbe

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#weirdwordwednesday
@CBee

A main reason I loved being in education was that pretty much every year everybody started out as a tabula rosa; everyone had a chance to start over. 💚

CBee Yes! Love it 💚 2w

lil1inblue That's just lovely! 💓🥰💓 2w

dabbe @CBee 🩶🤍🖤 2w

dabbe @lil1inblue 🩶🤍🖤 2w

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Soscha

Dive, Dive Into the Night Sea | Thea Lu

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Gorgeous book that I‘d get for my kid had I any. There are fold out flaps that prevent my efforts to take great photos sadly. Educational too!Bioluminescious, fluorescence, unihemispheric—which new to me is what sleeping whales do.

All the stars I have to give. ✨⭐️🌟⭐️✨

AnnCrystal 🤩👍🏼 Beautiful 💝🌊💝. 3w

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bibliothecarivs

The First and Second Prayer-books of King Edward the Sixth | Church of England

Recent acquisition for our personal library.

#english #christianity

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bibliothecarivs

The English Spirit: The Little Gidding Anthology of English Spirituality | Paul Handley

Recent acquisition for our personal library.

#english #christianity

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BookmarkTavern

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

I took this picture in the Wigan North Western railway station when I was visiting last week! There was a whole alphabet of phrases, and I wish I had had the time to take pictures of all of them!

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords @CBee

CBee Nice!! Where is this? 1mo

BookmarkTavern @CBee Wigan, England! I was doing some family history stuff in nearby Abram! 1mo

CBee @BookmarkTavern oh how cool! 1mo

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🤩🚃🎨💝. 1mo

Bookwomble This was how my accent would go when talking to the older generation of my family 😄 (I am the older generation of the family now, so it rarely slips out anymore 👴🏻) 1mo

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

I decided to keep it light for #weirdwordwednesday. So, instead of trying to explain how socialism and communism are not the same thing (😅), I present the echidna. Because, in this horrible dumpster fire we are currently living in, who doesn‘t want to look at and learn about cute, unique animals? 😁
Article links: https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/echidna AND https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/echidna

CBee Look up echidna babies/puggles. You can thank me later 😍 #weirdwords 1mo

Amiable OMG, it‘s like he (she? It ?) is reaching out for a hug! 😍 1mo

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TheBookHippie Omg so CUTE!!!!! 1mo

CBee @Amiable a very prickly hug 😂 1mo

CBee @TheBookHippie the babies are all bald and funny looking but so CUTE! 1mo

peanutnine Omg the PUGGLES!!! They're so freaking adorable! Their snouts! And cute little tongues!! Best Wednesday morning google 1mo

CBee @peanutnine yayyyy 💚💚💚👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 1mo

Tamra Adorbs! 1mo

5feet.of.fury So cute and weird ! 1mo

dabbe The adorableness I needed today. 💙🩵💙 1mo

CatLass007 Thank you once again for brightening up my Wednesday! I want one!😮💜 1mo

CBee @CatLass007 yay! You‘re welcome ☺️ 1mo

Kerrbearlib Adorable! 1mo

LeeRHarry They are very cute - lucky to have seen them out in the wild, just lumbering around! 😊 1mo

CBee @LeeRHarry so lucky! I‘m very jealous 💚 1mo

BookmarkTavern So cute! I want to put one in my pocket! 1mo

AnnCrystal 🤩 Thank You for this share! 👏🏼😍 Too Cute 💝💝💝. 1mo

Deblovestoread Adorable! ❤️ 1mo

mandarchy I am a little late to the party as usual. Thank you for something to reach out to from the dumpster fire 😅 1mo

CBee @mandarchy dumpster fire indeed 🤦‍♀️ You‘re welcome 💚 1mo

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Leonie Brandner: Three Becomes Two Becomes One Becomes None: Cosmopoiesis of Mandragoras | Leonie Brandner

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After becoming obsessed with this woodcut of a mandrake in the 1896 book Natural History in Shakespeare's Time, I couldn‘t believe my luck to find this brand new book about the mandragora plant! Here, Swiss artist Leonie Brandner explores the medicinal, magical, historical, folkloric, personal, political, genderqueer story of the only plant in the European context historically depicted as half human and half plant—with supernatural powers at that!

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