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BookishMarginalia

Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland | Martha Barnette

Need I say anything? 🤣🤣🤣 #TBRtemptation at #BookstoreOneSarasota

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Deblovestoread

Weird and Wonderful Words | Roz Chast, Erin McKean

#WeirdWordWednesday

A certain someone‘s voice is cacophonous to me. While in the literal sense of the word I might be wrong but the physical response I get when I accidentally hear it makes it seem so.

@CBee

TheBookHippie 🤢 4mo

kspenmoll I get it! 😂🤢 4mo

dabbe 🤢🎯🤢 4mo

JamieArc Unpleasant is an understatement. 🤡 4mo

CBee Same 😱 4mo

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Deblovestoread

The Weird World of Words: A Guided Tour | Mitchell Symons

#WeirdWordWednesday

I saw a IG reel posted by Cory Booker of a woman sharing the definition of trumpery. And sure enough it‘s right there in my Miriam-Webster dictionary. Sometimes the universe gets it right.

@CBee

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL27UaMPpAV/?igsh=b2xiZDZieGd0NHlw. Edited to attach the reel so all can enjoy!

DGRachel Wasn‘t it from Auntie Bev? She lives in the Raleigh/Durham area of NC. I adore her and she‘s worth following on IG in her own right. 6mo

Trashcanman Whats a good word for the people who believe his bullshit? Suckers, idiots, delusional, racists, bigots? We need a new word that encapsulates all of those into one. 6mo

Deblovestoread @DGRachel Yes! I loved her reel and will follow her. @Trashcanman Totally agree! 6mo

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TheBookHippie @Trashcanman 💯 6mo

TheBookHippie Loved this so much!! 6mo

Aims42 lol! I love this 🤣👍 Facts!! 6mo

AmyG @Trashcanman We do need a word. Where to even begin? 6mo

Sace @Trashcanman Behold: https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/synonyms-for-idiot#:~:text=.... 6mo

Chrissyreadit @Sace brilliant! @Trashcanman I believe “cult member” can also be a descriptor but it‘s not as viscous as they are. @Deblovestoread I saw this too and loved it so much! @DGRachel I keep adding people to follow- and am so glad to discover these brilliant people ❤️ 6mo

Trashcanman @Sace Thank you. But I think that his supporters are much more than just idiots. A lot are. But you can be an idiot and not be a racist, bigoted, heartless, POS. Just calling them an idiot is too kind. 6mo

Sace @Trashcanman true. 6mo

dabbe So frickin‘ true. 🩵🎯🩵 6mo

Amiable It‘s like a nightmare—I keep pinching myself to wake up but unfortunately we‘re already awake. 😖 6mo

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peanutnine

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! 😂 6mo

CBee @dabbe I‘m having trouble saying it once 😂 6mo

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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 😂 6mo

lil1inblue @CBee I guess Pablum was a brand name for baby cereal, and the name was based on this word! Kinda interesting! 6mo

CBee @lil1inblue very! 6mo

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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!! 🤩🤩🤩 8mo

TheBookHippie Love!!! 8mo

CBee I love this word 😊 8mo

Deblovestoread 💙💙💙 8mo

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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

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@CBee

Deblovestoread Shout out to Edith Childs who was the woman who started it! 8mo

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. 8mo

Deblovestoread @TheBookHippie ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 8mo

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BookmarkTavern Oh this is a good word! I‘m saving it immediately. 💖💖💖 8mo

Graciouswarriorlibrarian I saw this and screenshot it. 8mo

AmyG So many of us feel this. 8mo

CBee I feel this so much. And I remember that part in his book about Edith! Fire it up! Ready to go 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 8mo

CBee @TheBookHippie that is AWESOME 8mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie 🩵💙🩵 I'm not crying, you're crying! 8mo

dabbe What a W🤩WZA word: one that is much needed. 🩵💙🩵 8mo

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readingjedi

The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age | Steven Mithen

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Highly recommended for the enthusiastic armchair linguist like myself. This is an absolutely fascinating read. And the bibliography is huge!!! The in depth, impeccably referenced research is presented as coming together pieces of a jigsaw, each area of discovery added to the bigger picture. Complex ideas are explained in an accessible & entertaining manner & the whole thing is just so mind-blowingly interesting/intriguing/staggering 🤯🤯🤯

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