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After seeing a number of profiles sharing content on the etymology of unusual words, I’ve decided to have a dabble myself. This is from my research and all 100% true
This is a strictly limited run of 6 episodes.
#ActorsLife #comedyreels #etymology #linguistics #CunkOnBritain
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I've been rummaging in the Wordfoolery Archives again and this week's dusty gem is the Roman history of the word bankrupt. Enjoy! wordfoolery.wordpress.com/2016/01/01/t... #etymology #WordsTheRomansGaveUs
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After seeing a number of profiles sharing content on the etymology of unusual words, I’ve decided to have a wee dabble myself. This is from my research and all 100% true…because you can’t get more than 100%.
#ActorsLife #comedyreels #etymology #gossip #cunk
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After seeing a number of profiles sharing content on the etymology of unusual words, I’ve decided to have a wee dabble myself. This is from my research and all 100% true…because you can’t get more than 100%.
#ActorsLife #comedyreels #etymology #breakfast #cunk
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After seeing a number of profiles sharing content on the etymology of unusual words, I’ve decided to have a wee dabble myself. This is from my research and all 100% true…because you can’t get more than 100%.
#ActorsLife #comedyreels #etymology #hangover #cunk
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After seeing a number of profiles sharing content on the etymology of unusual words, I’ve decided to have a wee dabble myself. This is from my research and all 100% true…because you can’t get more than 100%.
#ActorsLife #comedyreels #etymology #cocksure #cunk
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"I can't think of anything more unwise than opening a line of communication to someone who lays their head down every night next to one of our abusers."
buymeacoffee.com/4islesmagics...
#blog #etymology #Greekmythology #paranoia #intuition #mentalhealthmatters #interpersonaldynamics
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A Google Play screen showing an App called Root Words byPraveen Yuva.
Hey #Educators #Teachers #etymology #dyslexia this Roots App is fantastic. #Reading #SWI #morphology #linguistics I've been very happy with it when tutoring kids & adults w/dyslexia.
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Alfred Forke: Der Ursprung der Chinesen
Found this little known book by Alfred Forke this week: The Origin of the Chinese on the Basis of their Old Pictograms. He discusses #etymology and connects it to early Chinese philosophy, cosmology, and culture. The 1925 volume focuses on agriculture, urbanism, and government. #Sinology
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OPIUM comes from Ancient Greek oπός (OPÓS) “vegetable juice.”
COPIUM downplays a problem to make it easier to deal with, as if there were a drug that made this process easier. HOPIUM is the overuse of hope or optimism, especially in illogical ways.
#etymology #wordorigins #copium #hopium
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"Nirvana" is from Sanskrit, meaning "extinguished or blown out."
#etymology
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The word "ketchup" has Chinese roots. It comes from "ke-tsiap," a sauce made from fermented fish. Tomato ketchup was a later development.
#etymology
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Lees: late 14c., from Old French lies, plural of lie "dregs, sediment," which is probably from Celtic *leg-ya- (compare Old Irish lige "a bed, a lying"), from PIE root *legh- "to lie down, lay."
www.etymonline.com/word/lees
#etymology
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Maundy: from Old French mandé, from Latin mandatum "commandment"; said to be in reference to...Mandatum novum do vobis "A new commandment I give unto you", words supposedly spoken by Jesus to the Apostles after washing their feet at the Last Supper.
www.etymonline.com/word/Maundy%... #etymology
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“Jeep” has uncertain origins. One popular theory links it to “GP,” a military designation, but the term “jeep” already existed as army slang for new or untested vehicles, and may also have been influenced by a character named Eugene the Jeep from the Popeye comics.
#etymology
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Wordle 1,748 5/6
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How you should be, Monday to Friday. Mostly.
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#Greece #Greek #LanguageLearning #WordOfTheDay #Etymology #Linguistics #Idiomas
What's something that you did with Meraki recently?
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Before radio, "broadcasting" was a farming term! 🚜
It meant scattering seeds widely by hand. 🧺 In the 1920s, engineers "borrowed" the word to describe sending radio signals in all directions instead of point-to-point. 📡
#ScienceTrivia #MediaHistory #Etymology
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f*ck!!
"orior" in Latin means "to rise" -->
the sun rises in the east -->
whence "oriental" to describe the land/people/culture lying east of europe
I'm sure #etymology nerds would be all over me for how obvious this is but I never knew that.
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Happy Wordfoolery Day! Here are the definitions and roots of the words, as promised. Which is your favourite? #etymology 🧵
Bombologist - one who studies bumble bees. From bombus, the Greek word for buzzing.
Fufflement - wearing too many layers of clothes. Yorkshire dialect.
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The surprisingly connected origins of "good", "gather", and "fondue".
#etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #good #god #gather #GoodFriday #fondue #giddy
youtube.com/shorts/JowYB...
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Some things stay, even after they’ve gone.
Redolent - carrying the trace of something beyond itself.
A word for what stays in the air; for a flavour, a memory half-sensed; for what quietly conjures.
open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...
#words #language #etymology
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A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms (1888), pg 4
You can search the dictionary yourself here - www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/research/dic...
#research #Kentish #dictionarycorner #historical #WordWednesday #etymology #dialects #localdialect
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