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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

The constantly changing tapestry of human knowledge is one of the coolest things about us as a species.

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords @CBee

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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Thanks to the lovely book, Mythos, and to the even lovelier Stephen Fry for writing it, this is my #weirdwords pick for today! Link to the mythological origin/story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycaon_(king_of_Arcadia)
Enjoy! #weirdwordwednesday

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TheSpineView ❤️🐺📖 1d

peanutnine I adore Stephen Fry! His narration for the audiobook is also amazing 1d

CBee @peanutnine oh yes! I‘m totally listening to the audiobook - it‘s excellent! 1d

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BookmarkTavern Thanks for sharing the story! 24h

Amiable Cool word! 22h

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 21h

CBee @BookmarkTavern absolutely - I like to add some context 😊 16h

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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

First snow of the season! And I‘m so glad today is the start of my weekend so I can stay inside, make chocolate chip cookies, and read my books. 💖

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords @CBee

AllDebooks What a fab word ❄️ 1w

ShelleyBooksie Cool! 1w

TheSpineView Great word!❤️ 1w

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CBee Lovely! We‘re having this sort of weather today ♥️ 1w

dabbe 🧡🍁🤎 1w

AnnCrystal 💕🍪🌧️📚💝. (edited) 1w

BethM Ohhh where are you? We‘re theoretically getting some next weekend! 1w

BookmarkTavern @BethM Utah! The Salt Lake Valley. Just enough to cover the ground. ❄️❄️ 1w

mcctrish Great word - we‘ve got rain in southern Ontario 7d

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dabbe

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#weirdwordwednesday
#weirdwords
@CBee

A fun one to say, too: [per-uh-pi-TEE-uh]

TheBookHippie 😅👀♥️ 1w

CBee Great one!! 1w

dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤩😂🤗 1w

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dabbe @CBee 🤩😂🤗 1w

BookmarkTavern Oh that‘s a fun one! 1w

dabbe @BookmarkTavern 🤩😂🤗 1w

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

I was fine putting marginalia in my textbooks, and maybe literature I was reading for school, but now? It‘s hard for me to write in books (maybe that‘s why #LPMBC wasn‘t my cup of tea 😂)! Anyway, such a pretty word, hope you all enjoy! Here‘s an article about weird medieval marginalia: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-marginalia-books-doodles

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mcctrish It‘s crazy how many years passed before I got over myself and wrote marginalia in my cookbooks 1w

Bookwomble Nope!🫸📝A lovely, mellifluous word, and ok in ancient grimoires, but otherwise, Nope! 😄 1w

lil1inblue I used to be against marginalia, but then I inherited some of my grandfather's books. I didn't get to know him well because he was sick after I was born and died when I was young. But I did get to know him through his marginalia. So now I write in all the books. 💖 1w

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TheSpineView I love this word! 1w

dabbe When we used to have real textbooks in high school, I taught the kids to mark them up with post-it-notes because they couldn't write in them. The power of a post-it-note! 🤩 1w

Amiable Just can‘t do it! 😬 Although your experience is absolutely lovely, @lil1inblue ! (edited) 1w

BookmarkTavern I love writing in my books! 😅😅😅 Seeing my different notes in books I reread regularly, like Dracula, are so much fun! 1w

CBee @Bookwomble you just used another wonderful word - mellifluous!! 1w

CBee @lil1inblue that‘s so lovely ♥️♥️ 1w

CBee @dabbe post-it notes are the bomb. Couldn‘t live without em! 1w

CBee @BookmarkTavern that‘s cool! I don‘t know why it‘s such a weird thing for me 🤷‍♀️ 1w

BethM It makes me@think of our missing friends @BookishMarginalia and @WanderingBookaneer ❤️ 1w

CBee @BethM oh! I hope they‘re both doing well - any idea what‘s going on with them? 1w

BethM @CBee I‘m not sure they haven‘t posted in years. I check their pages every once in awhile. 1w

CBee @BethM 😢🤷‍♀️ 7d

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Mystery Knowledge and Mystery Centres: Fourteen Lectures Given in Dornach Between 23 November and 23 December, 1923 | Rudolf Steiner

#TLT @dabbe

Only 9 out of 100. There were a few authors I'd read, just not the listed book, and a few movie adaptations I've seen that could have boosted my score. Still, it included three of my favorite books of all time:

📘 Crime and Punishment
📕 The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
📗 The Long Good-Bye

dabbe Have you read THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV? That book was torture for me. Should I give CRIME a go? Thanks for playing and sharing! 🖤🎃🖤 3w

The_Penniless_Author @dabbe Yes! Dostoevsky was my first "favorite author" back in high school, so I've read nearly everything he's written. I would definitely recommend C&P. It's the most accessible of his books. At root, it's a psychological thriller, albeit with philosophical/religious overtone. 3w

dabbe @The_Penniless_Author Now on the TBR! Thanks! 🤩 3w

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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Here‘s a fun spooky word for Halloween tomorrow! Also, I have never felt less inspired to take a walk in the woods.

#WeirdWords #WeirdWordWednesday @CBee

TheSpineView Love this word! Perfect for Halloween 🎃 3w

CBee Oooo this is super spooky 🫢 3w

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