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Word for today: swarf

What sawdust is to wood, swarf is to stone, metal, and other materials; not sure how far this goes. Plastic? Bone? Cheese?

#nouns

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(Midcentury teen slang)

Hotbed - Wikipedia

I’d never really thought about what a genuine literal hotbed is but yeah obviously it’s from gardening where you cover up a patch of land to trap heat and encourage plant growth

Word for today: armigerous

Entitled by the traditional rules to bear a coat of arms. (Opposite: nonarmigerous.)

#adjectives

Word for today: thrave

Two completely unrelated meanings: as a verb, to urge, and as a noun, a group of 24 wheats or sometimes 12 or sometimes any large number in that region

#verbs #nouns

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Discover authentic Southern and Appalachian slang, sayings, accents, audio recordings, recipes, folklore, traditions, and stories — with cul

https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/110/docs/uncleftish-beholding.html

In 1989 sci-fi author Poul Anderson published the essay “Uncleftish Beholding”, imagining how to explain atomic science using English without any words from Greek, Latin, or Romance languages.

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#know your fandom history

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I found this at work and it reminded me of this post so I thought I'd share.

Some of them are old but some are still used frequently.

Words for today: telic and atelic

Describing an action that is progress towards a certain goal, or one that is not. Useful when discussing, say, politicians that like to say or do goofy shit to distract from the things they are actually working on.

#adjectives

real-language-facts

one may think "language" is french or spinach for "the nguage". this is a folk etymology myth, it is actually more like mile -> mileage. "How much language are you getting out ofthose words"

galileosballs

I regret to inform everyone that this is actually not that far off the real etymology. The 'langue' part of language comes from the latin 'lingua', meaning 'tongue', and the '-age' suffix is something the word picked up in old french as a suffix of action (like how a 'pilgrimage' is 'that thing pilgrims do'). So really it's more like 'what that tongue do'

unfavorableinstigation

Well, that's upsetting.

allthingslinguistic

I'm a linguist and this is completely true.

Also the Proto Indo-European root for tongue is cursed and needs to be brought to your attention:

late 13c., langage "words, what is said, conversation, talk," from Old French langage "speech, words, oratory; a tribe, people, nation" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *linguaticum, from Latin lingua "tongue," also "speech, language" (from PIE root *dnghu- "tongue"). The -u- is an Anglo-French insertion (see gu-); it was not originally pronounced.

boringkate

You only ever hear about newfangled things. Never oldfangled. Where do all the old fangles go?

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Newfangled literally means newly-invented or newly-made with a derisive tone, so I guess the oldfangled things are in antique stores and museums? Anyway fangle can also be a verb, like when the tech industry fangles some new bullshit they want to ram down our throats

Word for today: gadgetbahn

#nouns

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Word for today: steven

Obsolete word for a loud voice or something that has been yelled

#nouns

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~ Saint James Hotel, 1872

The Saint James Hotel is "furnished with a Passenger Elevator, or Vertical Railway, which is at the service of Guests from 6:30 a.m. till 12 at night."

I'd like to ride the Vertical Railway, please

Picture of the Saint James Hotel:

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Word for today: vertical railway

#nouns

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