Litsy

Weird and Wonderful Words | Roz Chast, Erin McKean

#WeirdWordWednesday @CBee
This was one that I came across and had to look up just for the pronunciation 🤔 A bit of a tongue twister!

dabbe Agreed! Try to say that one fast 10 times through! 😂 1mo

CBee @dabbe I‘m having trouble saying it once 😂 1mo

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lil1inblue

Weird and Wonderful Words | Roz Chast, Erin McKean

#weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords #pabulum
@cbee

CBee Nice! I always heard it said “pablum” in reference to baby food - maybe sort of a rice cereal? My boys never liked it 😂 1mo

lil1inblue @CBee I guess Pablum was a brand name for baby cereal, and the name was based on this word! Kinda interesting! 1mo

CBee @lil1inblue very! 1mo

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peanutnine

Weird and Wonderful Words | Roz Chast, Erin McKean

#WeirdWordWednesday @CBee
Mellifluous is also a pleasant word to say! I love that the Latin translates almost literally to 'flows like honey' 🍯

TheSpineView Like!! 🤩🤩🤩 3mo

TheBookHippie Love!!! 3mo

CBee I love this word 😊 3mo

Deblovestoread 💙💙💙 3mo

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Deblovestoread

Weird and Wonderful Words | Roz Chast, Erin McKean

Pronounced TUR-Shuh in Irish or TOOR-shuh in Scottish I think many of us are experiencing this in a deep way.

The antidote is to find joy, gratitude, etc.

My daughter sent me this link today and it was the perfect antidote. President Obama telling the story of one woman‘s voice energizing him, a room and a movement. Fire it up! Ready to go!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIfNLskTgQB/?igsh=ZGIxYWg0Nnp6YWc2

#WeirdWordWednesday

@CBee

Deblovestoread Shout out to Edith Childs who was the woman who started it! 3mo

TheBookHippie My grandson 11 asked me what to yell so people would yell back - So he hollered at the top of his voice “ TELL ME WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE” in a crowd of 3000 plus people the 200 closest to us replied “THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE.” A lady who was 92 in a wheelchair later stopped us to say she now had hope, because it was a child‘s voice and adults answered him. Yes I cried. I was a puddle. 3mo

Deblovestoread @TheBookHippie ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 3mo

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BookmarkTavern Oh this is a good word! I‘m saving it immediately. 💖💖💖 3mo

Graciouswarriorprincess I saw this and screenshot it. 3mo

AmyG So many of us feel this. 3mo

CBee I feel this so much. And I remember that part in his book about Edith! Fire it up! Ready to go 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3mo

CBee @TheBookHippie that is AWESOME 3mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie 🩵💙🩵 I'm not crying, you're crying! 3mo

dabbe What a W🤩WZA word: one that is much needed. 🩵💙🩵 3mo

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Purpleness

The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language | Mark Forsyth

Texreader Love this!! If only I could pronounce those words 1y

Crazeedi I have 3 of his books, so interesting!! 1y

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Purpleness

The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language | Mark Forsyth

#firstlinefridays

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julesG

Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain | Susie Dent

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Entertaining and educating. If, like me, you've always wanted to know about the 'secret' language spoken in the emergency department of a hospital, or by cricket players, or among sound engineers, or... This book is for you.

#MarvellousMarch #readathon @Andrew65

LeahBergen Happy Birthday!! ❤️ 1y

julesG @LeahBergen Thank you! 1y

Andrew65 Belated birthday greetings 🎉🎂🎁🎈🎉🥳 1y

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julesG @Andrew65 Thank you! 1y

Cathythoughts Happy Birthday 🎂 my birthday twin 😘 1y

julesG @Cathythoughts Happy Birthday to you, birthday twin 🥳🎂 1y

bthegood happy birthday - 1y

julesG @bthegood Thank you! 1y

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Robotswithpersonality

Word Perfect: Curious Coinages and Etymological First Aid for Every Day of the Year | SUSIE. DENT

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Fun!
I did this in five word bursts, sometimes multiple a day, rather than one a day to keep up with library loans period, but it was still marvelously diverting rather than overwhelming. I can't say I'll remember every word I learned about but I always enjoy etymological entertainment. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality A few things I didn't expect:
UK (English and Scottish) words I've never heard of.
Some entries actually include multiple words under the heading of one, and some entries fully admit that the original origin can only be guessed at.
Diving into word history also meant getting many snippets of world history in the bargain). 2/? 1y

Robotswithpersonality Getting an Englishwoman's expansion on the origin of American English words occasionally made familiar words feel foreign, odd experience, especially where the whole British Empire colonialism in history came into play. Mostly, entries acknowledged the injustices in darker moments of history.
The book's 2020 publication date meant multiple references to COVID and Trump. 3/3 1y

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Robotswithpersonality

Word Perfect: Curious Coinages and Etymological First Aid for Every Day of the Year | SUSIE. DENT