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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

"Bei Mir Bistu Shein" (Yiddish: בײַ מיר ביסטו שעהן, or Yiddish: בײַ מיר ביסטו שיין)

“To Me You're Beautiful"

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? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvxkomTYkfM

kspenmoll Thanks for the link! 9h

AmyG My Grandma loved this song. 8h

TheBookHippie @AmyG Mine too. She danced to it 🙃 8h

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AmyG Yes! Mine, too. 7h

julieclair Does anyone even know how to sing like that anymore? 6h

TheBookHippie @julieclair Actually yes, Jazz Clubs I‘ve heard some good stuff. Post Modern Jukebox comes close. It‘s lovely isn‘t it? 6h

julieclair So, you just sent me scurrying to Spotify. I‘d never heard of Postmodern Jukebox. Oh my! Their cover of Jolene is unbelievable! Gut wrenching. I‘m an instant fan! 5h

TheBookHippie @julieclair 😊🎶😊 5h

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peanutnine

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#WeirdWordWednesday @CBee
This is one I figured out from context clues but I enjoy the definition - "a violent expression"

CBee Great word!! 8h

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

So I‘m not fond of the smell of manure 😑, BUT I do love the smell of dirt, earth, and grass… *sigh* #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords

Megabooks, Daisey, TheBookHippie, Amiable, vivastory, slategreyskies, CatLass007, mandarchy, dabbe, IndoorDame, lil1inblue, peanutnine, psalva

ImperfectCJ When I lived in North Carolina, the tap water in Chapel Hill had a very earthy flavor that people described as "fecund," which is how I learned this word. It always makes me think of frogs (and tadpoles) for some reason. 1mo

CBee @ImperfectCJ I believe I‘ve tasted water like that, it‘s interesting 😂 Believe it or not, I actually like the algae smell too and associate it with frogs and tadpoles 😊 1mo

dabbe It's definitely a one-of-a-kind aroma! 🤩😍😃 1mo

LiseWorks I live in farm country, and yes, the spread of manure is often here.And depending on the wind, folks around here decide when to put the laundry out. Lol and the corn fields are beautiful! 1mo

CBee @LiseWorks 😊😊 1mo

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psalva

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

A late night #weirdwordwednesday. A malaphor, or a mixed idiom is when two idioms are mixed with a comic result. They remind me of malapropisms. I meant to come up with a few of my own but didn‘t have much creative energy. Has anyone got any other funny ones? #weirdwords @CBee

CBee I‘ll have to think on this - never even knew it existed! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 1mo

BookmarkTavern Marvelous! 1mo

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Still riding on my mythology high after reading A Thousand Ships, apparently 😂😂 So here is my #weirdwordwednesday choice and even better, an article with examples of katabases (I believe that‘s the plural). Does anybody else want to slap Orpheus? Dude had one job and he screwed it up 🤦‍♀️😂🤔🤭🫣 https://www.thecollector.com/mortals-underworld-katabasis-greek-roman-mythology/
#weirdwords

Megabooks, Daisey, TheBookHippie, Amiable, vivastory, slategreyskies, CatLass007, mandarchy, dabbe, IndoorDame, lil1inblue, peanutnine, psalva

psalva Very cool word! I didn‘t know the Ancient Greek roots. In modern Greek there‘s still κατεβαίνω, which is the verb to go down or get off (of a bus for instance), and also καταλαβαίνω which is the verb “to understand.” One of those common roots I guess :) Also, I always got frustrated with Orpheus as well! 1mo

mrsmarch I just read A Thousand Ships too! Have you read Haynes‘ Pandora‘s Jar?

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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vivastory As someone who loves Dante's Divine Comedy (esp. Books 1 & 2) I love this one! 1mo

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dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 1mo

CBee @psalva I mean, he just needed to do one thing! Don‘t look back! But did he listen? Nope 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️😂😂😂 1mo

CBee @mrsmarch I haven‘t! Is it good? 1mo

CBee @vivastory I haven‘t attempted Dante and applaud you 👏🏻👏🏻 1mo

mrsmarch @CBee it‘s great! Definitely recommend! 1mo

CBee @mrsmarch I see I have it stacked already - will definitely move it up the list! Thanks 😊 1mo

Amiable Fabulous word! 1mo

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hissingpotatoes

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | Anne Collins, Alexander McCall Smith

so-so

2.5/5⭐ There's very little connective tissue to the story. Often an entire chapter goes onto a tangent into a side character's full history or Botswanan history/culture. The main plot doesn't make its presence known until 2/3 of the way through, and even then there's no sense of urgency or conflict/difficulty and it's distracted from with sideplots. I like the main character but there was never a hook for me. #roll100

hissingpotatoes #52bookclub24 set in landlocked country @Kristy_K, @LaraReads, @KarenUK, @Hooked_on_books, @BarkingMadRead, @brittanyreads, @Graciouswarriorprincess, @Magpiegem, @BookBelle84, @Larkken, @jenniferw88, @julesG, @Deblovestoread, @MidnightBookGirl, @Librarybelle, @triplem80, @Tove_Reads, @Read4life, @Bluebird, @eeclayton, @BarbaraBB, @Book_Lover95, @TheAromaofBooks, @kwmg40, @Crazeedi, @slategreyskies 1mo

Librarybelle I liked this one but wasn‘t in love with it, if that makes sense. I know others who absolutely devoured this series, they loved it that much. 1mo

Ruthiella All the books are like this. I love ‘em but I can see where they would not appeal to everyone. 1mo

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Amiable

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

There‘s a word for everything! Even a word for things that aren‘t words.

#weirdwordwednesday
#weirdwords
@CBee

Deblovestoread Something I didn‘t know I needed to know! Love it 💜 2mo

monalyisha Thanks for this super fun fact! 1mo

Amiable @monalyisha This would be an awesome Scrabble word, too. If I played Scrabble. 😃 1mo

monalyisha @Amiable Omg, 7 letters too (which would get you a 50 point bonus)! Salivating at the prospect… (edited) 1mo

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

A favorite poem and word 😊 @vivastory I know you love this one too 😁 #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords

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TheBookHippie I love this! 2mo

IndoorDame A favorite!!! 2mo

Amiable I love this word! Along with jibber-jabber. There‘s just something about the j words. 2mo

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lil1inblue 😍 😍 😍 2mo

dabbe One of my better teacher assignments (other than the “mean“ April Fool's joke): after teaching the parts of speech, kids had to replace all of the nonsense words with bona fide real words. They loved it and couldn't believe that it was quite easy. That led into teaching all about sentence structure. Sigh. I miss teaching, but not all the *&(% that goes along with it. 💚 2mo

Deblovestoread Such a great word! 2mo

CBee @dabbe I had an ancient Latin teacher in high school - they actually dragged her out of retirement to teach Latin. She was just the best and I adored her, but she was made fun of by some of the other students - she had her glasses held together with safety pins, her slip was always showing, but I never cared. Anyway! She‘d recite Jabberwocky often in a wonderfully dramatic voice and I always think of her when I read it ♥️ 2mo

dabbe @CBee She sounds truly like one-of-a-kind. 💚💙💚 2mo

CBee @dabbe I‘m going to email you an article my hometown paper did about her! 2mo

Aimeesue We had to memorize this one in high school. I can still recite it. And often do. Poems are great to run through while you‘re having an MRI. 😂 2mo

CBee @Aimeesue I wish I‘d had that assignment! 2mo

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Amiable

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Saw this word and couldn‘t resist for #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords ! 😀

@CBee

IndoorDame 😆😆😆😆 2mo

CBee 😂😂😂😂 nice 2mo

dabbe Now that's a word I can stand behind! 😃 2mo

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Amiable @dabbe LMAO! 😆 2mo

dabbe @Amiable 🤩😂😍 2mo

Soubhiville Love it! 2mo

Tamra 😂who knew? 2mo

Daisey 😂🤣 2mo

LoverOfLearning Lmao! 2mo

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

I love this word and never knew this was what it meant! I also love looking at old advertisements - makes me nostalgic for when things were (maybe) simpler? Not that I‘m old enough to have played with a zoetrope…..but I digress. Enjoy 😂🤪 #weirdwords #weirdwordswednesday

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TheBookHippie Oh wow! How fun! 2mo

IndoorDame I had no idea those had such a cool name! I‘m old enough to have played with flip books, which aren‘t as aesthetically appealing lying around a playroom, but were a really neat evolution of that since they could tell a whole mini wordless story… 2mo

Megabooks Very cool! 2mo

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CatLass007 I‘ve seen pictures of zoetropes, and I‘ve heard the word zoetrope. But I never put the word with the toy. Cool. 2mo

CBee @IndoorDame my oldest son loves to make his own flip books 😊 2mo

IndoorDame @CBee awesome! 2mo

Amiable Cool Scrabble word for Z! 🙂 2mo

CBee @Amiable oh yes!!! 2mo

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2mo

willaful When I was a kid, we had a book of paper cut out old-fashioned toys and it included a Zoetrope, so I guess I'm old enough to have played with one. 😂 We used to put it on the record player so it would spin. (There, now you know how old I really am!) 2mo

CBee @willaful that sounds cool! I had a record player - one for me and my parents had one too 😊 I guess I just meant I wasn‘t old enough to have played with it when it was new? 🤷‍♀️😂 2mo

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