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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Look at my roses! ❤️🌹❤️

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords @CBee

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 14h

kspenmoll Amazing color! 😘 14h

CBee Those are gorgeous! I love the color! 11h

AnnCrystal 🤩 Beautiful 😍🌹💖🌹💖🌹...they glow 🤩. 9h

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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Sorry, friends, for not keeping up with this as well recently!
Here‘s an article: https://science.nasa.gov/biological-physical/what-is-lunar-regolith/ #weirdwords #weirdwordwednesday

CBee @Megabooks @Daisey @TheBookHippie @Amiable @vivastory @Catlass007 @mandarchy @dabbe @IndoorDame @peanutnine @psalva @slategreyskies @Lil1inblue @Deblovestoread @TheSpineView @BookmarkTavern @Cuilin @Kerrbearlib (edited) 20h

BookmarkTavern Oh that‘s cool! I love science words! 14h

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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#weirdwords #weirdwordwednesday
@CBee

This one seems relevant nowadays for some reason.

CatLass007 Great word! I do love #WeirdWordWednesdays! 2w

dabbe @CatLass007 😍🤩😍 2w

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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

I‘ve known a handful of harridans 😂😬😅 #weirdwords #weirdwordwednesday

CBee @Megabooks @Daisey @TheBookHippie @Amiable @vivastory @Catlass007 @mandarchy @dabbe @IndoorDame @peanutnine @psalva @slategreyskies @Lil1inblue @Deblovestoread @TheSpineView @BookmarkTavern @Cuilin @Kerrbearlib (edited) 2w

AmyG Don‘t we all. 2w

dabbe I think a few of my students thought I was this, but they probably used an easier swear word instead. 😅 2w

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CBee @dabbe oh please! I could never think of you as bossy or belligerent. If you were strict, it‘s because you wanted to push them to do their best! Would‘ve loved to see you in action 😁 2w

dabbe @CBee You are too kind! I definitely was a pusher--in all the best ways, of course! 😘 2w

vivastory 😂😂😂😂 2w

Megabooks Idk. This might be #goals for me??? 2w

CBee @Megabooks 😂😂😂 I don‘t know that I‘d necessarily blame you! 2w

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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

My #weirdwordwednesday pick! I remember discovering this word during a word game - maybe Words With Friends or similar - and always thought it was a bit silly sounding. This little googol mascot guy should have googly eyes, I think 😂 #weirdwords

CBee @Megabooks @Daisey @TheBookHippie @Amiable @vivastory @Catlass007 @mandarchy @dabbe @IndoorDame @peanutnine @psalva @slategreyskies @Lil1inblue @Deblovestoread @TheSpineView @BookmarkTavern @Cuilin @Kerrbearlib (edited) 1mo

CatLass007 Another great word! I was listening to Death Comes To Pemberley and decided to look up a word instead of just figuring out what it meant from its context. I actually should have stuck to my habit with this particular word because it was very difficult to find a real definition or even a picture. What on earth did the word jives mean in 1803? 1mo

BookmarkTavern I heard the word googolplex (10 raised to the power of a googol) first when I was in school, and that‘s how I learned about googol. 😄 1mo

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CBee @CatLass007 jives? In 1803? Hmm. I have no idea 😂😂 1mo

CBee @BookmarkTavern I should have included googolplex! 1mo

CatLass007 I‘ve heard of gewgaws but not googols. “Jives around the prisoner‘s wrists,” was the quote in the book. Shackles. 1mo

CBee @CatLass007 gotcha. What are gewgaws? 4w

CatLass007 Gewgaws are what I would call “thingies.” I‘ve never actually looked up the definition. As usual. 4w

CBee @CatLass007 I looked it up 😂 Couldn‘t resist. “Gewgaws:
a showy thing, especially one that is useless or worthless.” 4w

CatLass007 Okay, so I was wrong. Thingies are useful. 4w

CBee @CatLass007 I agree! Thingies are very useful, especially when you don‘t know what something is called. “That thingie over there” and such 😂 4w

CatLass007 Exactly!! 4w

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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Sometimes, you just gotta buckle down and do the work. 💙

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords @CBee

CBee Oof. But the work can be so hard 😬🫩 1mo

BookmarkTavern @CBee Yes, but the results are so very often worth it! 💕 1mo

CBee @BookmarkTavern this is true ♥️ 1mo

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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

This word came up in my last read (Saltwater 🙌🏻🙌🏻). It would be so fun to ride one of these! 😊
Here‘s an article about some well-known funiculars around the world: https://www.treehugger.com/fabulous-funiculars-from-around-the-globe-4863745

CBee @Megabooks @Daisey @TheBookHippie @Amiable @vivastory @Catlass007 @mandarchy @dabbe @IndoorDame @peanutnine @psalva @slategreyskies @Lil1inblue @Deblovestoread @TheSpineView @BookmarkTavern @Cuilin @Kerrbearlib (edited) 1mo

RaeLovesToRead I've been on funiculars! There was a small one in Scarborough. The biggest I've been on (I think) was Lake Como. Do you have them in the US? 1mo

RaeLovesToRead Ok the ones in the article are enormous! I've not been on one that big!!!!! 1mo

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CBee @RaeLovesToRead we do! Not sure how many, but there‘s one a couple hours from me that I might have to check out! 1mo

TheBookHippie I‘ve been on a few and I‘ve been on the Lookout Mountain one, seen the LA one. There‘s one at our zoo it‘s a riot ! 1mo

peanutnine A funicular was mentioned in my last read as well! What are the odds! These seem so cool, I want to ride one! 1mo

ImperfectCJ The article missed this one, which is the one that taught me the word. (Until then, I just called them all trams, which is clearly wrong.): https://www.quebec-cite.com/en/businesses/funiculaire-du-vieux-quebec 1mo

Bookwormjillk I rode one in Pittsburgh. Kind of fun and scary at the same time. 1mo

CBee @TheBookHippie if you ever ever ever get back down to Chattanooga, you better let me know. I‘m like two hours from there! 1mo

CBee @peanutnine small world! I sort of thought it sounded like a body part - like part of the spine or something 😆 1mo

CBee @ImperfectCJ oooo how cool! 1mo

CBee @Bookwormjillk I want to visit the one on Lookout Mountain now. 1mo

Bookwormjillk @CBee I bet that's pretty! 1mo

CBee @Bookwormjillk it‘s lovely up there! 1mo

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My Big Sister Can See Dragons | Rocky Sanchez Tirona

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#Bibliophile Day 19: what happens when your big sister can see #Dragons? Big Sister provided a ‘dragon eye‘ technique that consists of rolling up one‘s eyeballs that would allow the dragons to surface in one‘s peripheral vision - yet this young girl simply cannot see them. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-dVr