Just met 4 dachshunds in the park called Gary, Steve, Kevin and Dave, and my day improved by approximately 659%

The new owners of Dictonary.com (IXL Learning) have terminated the positions of all the staff lexicographers. So angry about this.

Nonfiction. Specifically language-related.

'Idle' (inactive; lazy; trivial) has the same origin as German 'eitel' (vain) and the three Dutch words 'ijdel' (vain), 'ijl' (rarefied), and 'iel' (meagre).

They all come from Proto-Germanic *īdalaz (empty). Its form and meaning evolved very differently.

The graphic shows how:

It seems I have false baby’s breath.

Was just pondering ‘ness’.
(Bo’ness, Loch Ness, Furness, Skegness, Sheerness…)

Felt compelled to look it up.

Ness – cape, promontory or headland.
🤯🤯🤯

Relocating stuff at the plot. It’s exactly the same as what I do at home: move that pile there/take that lot upstairs/shove that stuff behind there so I don’t forget it…🙄

Have things stopped disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle or what?

Oh my god huge Mac/iPhone-using medievalist revelation. You know when you hold down a letter and some have variants?? They finally offer thorn, eth and wynn! I asked for this YEARS ago!

En route to the bottle bank.

For all Thatcher and Blair talked of upskilling or a knowledge economy, Shildon already had a workforce of artisans – and they were condemned.

Geographic and emotional areas very close to my wounded heart. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Learning English bastardisation via Spanish.

Originally, ‘island’ didn’t include the letter ‘s'.
It was incorrectly inserted in the 16th century to make it
more like the French word 'isla'.

What was Burgess Park like when you live round there, MartyJ #bringontheGE.? I always think the metal bridge is weird, but I love walking the old canal (?) route to Peckham.

Potsherds in Australia.

Injure or Hurt?

👉 You can injure or hurt a part of the body in an accident. ______ emphasizes the physical pain caused; ______ emphasizes that the part of the body has been damaged in some way.

“Do you ______ yourself?”

Levelling up, my arse.

Ineffective government climate policies violate fundamental human rights, European Court of Human Rights has ruled.
The ECHR has raised judicial pressure on governments to stop filling the atmosphere with gases that make extreme weather more violent. 🔥💦🌪️🔥💨

Exactly this.
*See also displaced people