For #NationalTourismDay, may we direct you to our video about the Olympics, Amateurs, and – it turns out – tourism? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im0C18vcyFE
For #NationalTourismDay, may we direct you to our video about the Olympics, Amateurs, and – it turns out – tourism? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im0C18vcyFE
#WordWeavers May 5. Describe the way your antagonist speaks.
The Lavishiers have adopted a heavily vaudevillian sort of "French" accented English with extra words borrowed from other languages...
Think if robots from the future wanted to perform theatre of what they thought Americans with no theatre experience would do with a French accent (plus had AI randomly throw in words from Mandarin, Nigerian, and Gaelic, etc).
#writerscommunity #wordnerd #bookstodon
Happy #NationalTeacherDay! Thank you to all the teachers whose work is so important. To mark the day, here’s our video on the etymologies and history of education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR0YVsr8QhU #NationalTeachersDay #TeacherAppreciationDay #TeacherAppreciationWeek
It’s #NationalCartoonistsDay! Here’s our video “Marvel” about the history of comics and cartoons, to celebrate! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_V7GSoi314
Happy #MuseumLoversDay! Did you know that ‘museum’ and ‘music’ are related words? We got into that in our video on Music, but we talked about the early history of museums in this Endnote: https://youtu.be/tbvvu2NDL-A
From Miss Squeaky's Lexicon of Idioms
Go Down the Rabbit Hole
Originally meant: To enter a bizarre or complex journey.
Modern reality:
“I just wanted to look up one word on Etymonline. Next thing I knew, I had 37 tabs open, I knew the ancient root of kneecap, and was considering a minor in Old Norse.”
By the time I emerged, my tea was cold, my parrot had learned Latin, and I no longer remembered what I was doing in the first place.
#RabbitHole #WordNerd #MissSqueakyBrew #LinguisticTimeTravel
It’s #BirdDay! So here are some bird etymologies to celebrate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HITkoa7q5J0
Happy #StarWarsDay! Here’s the surprisingly connected origins of "protocol" and "droid" (and why blue milk is kind of the thing that glues them together)! https://youtube.com/shorts/ibFTMbTBFAI
Happy #FreeComicBookDay! So here’s our video “Marvel” about the history of comics, to celebrate! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_V7GSoi314
Happy #MayDay! Solidarity to those on strike and thank you to the unions fighting for workers’ rights. Here are some labour-related etymologies to celebrate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f2o__MMn88
The surprisingly connected origins of "plagiarism", "flag", and "complacent". #etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #plagiarism #flag #complacent
It’s #DenimDay! Did you know that “denim” is named after a place? Learn about this and other fabric eponyms in our video on “costume”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzgoxKvgAr0
It’s #ZipperDay! A simple-seeming invention that’s had a big effect on clothing and fashion, as we talked about in our video on Costume. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzgoxKvgAr0
It’s #WorldIntellectualPropertyDay, and we have a whole playlist of videos to celebrate with! The history of copyrights, patents, and trademarks – via Freebooting, Bug, & Linoleum: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlDwZNRMgsJINop574PoboNpXz5Ang9LH
Happy #ArborDay! Here’s one of our videos celebrating trees and tree-planting:
The surprisingly connected origins of greedflation, yearn, soufflé, blow, and budget.
#etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #greedflation #yearn #soufflé #blow #budget
It’s #WorldBookDay! Here’s our video about the history of the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOK6kB9ytIo
Happy #EnglishLanguageDay! For a look back at the origins of this language, here’s our video on looking for the Earliest English Word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5QxjzaL1Wc
Happy #ShakespeareDay! Why not celebrate by making it Weird – with our video about the history of that word, and its connections to Fate, Shakespeare, and witches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYPoTrHTXVQ
Happy #EarthDay! To celebrate, here’s our video about the Food Web, and how it’s a better model for ecosystems than the food chain. We made it for our friend the @RvingNaturalist’s channel, and she has a lot more videos there about nature and ecology that you should check out! https://youtu.be/OxKvcA4NpaQ