Into the Words @N2theWords
Wandering through words. Etymology, word history, language resources. See blog for latest post. intothewords.com Joined March 2018-
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Coined in 1849, WORSIFICATION is the writing of terrible poetry.
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Joker (2019) and its disappointing villainy. A nerd's lament: intothewords.com/post/killing-j…
New blog post after a bit of hibernation, dear witches. Enjoy your Friday! intothewords.com/post/wander-5-…
'Circumjacent' - being nearby and around. Johnathan Bulwer uses it here to describe muscles around they eye when you clamp them shut in fear. We've all flexed our rank coward's sphincter from time to time, though, right?
This explains so much about Order of the Phoenix, really. leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicon/entry/…
'Harow-canes' From a 1635 English translation of a Mercator Atlas.
'Scene', that building block of narrative, reminds us that story making has always been about what's important: throwing #shade
🔥 Soon the editor hand-wringing will be over 9000! 🔥 x.com/KOsborneWV/sta…
News from the American Copy Editors Society conference that will rock copy editors to their very cores: AP Stylebook editors said at a session Thursday that "Over" is fine when referring to a quantity; you don't have to change it to "more than." The news elicited a gasp. #over
‘Feckless’ left behind a less popular counterpart, ‘Feckful’. Both are believed to share a history with ‘effect’.
'Inform' used to mean 'give shape to' as well as 'forming an idea or concept'. Neural 'plasticity' (from Greek plastikos) refers to the brain's ability to re-mold itself, a process we might well call 'information'.
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'Nngf' is NOT a noun meaning "the final sip of cold, sedimenty coffee from your keep cup," but it should be. #ThursdayThoughts
New word wander: "Attention." It must be paid. intothewords.com/single-post/at…
Comment Section, n. Opportunity for demonstrations of original post in action. See also ‘abyss’. x.com/oed/status/100…
OED Word of the Day: mansplain, v. Of a man: to explain (something) needlessly, overbearingly, or condescendingly… bit.ly/2sxHQd7
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English is a beautiful mess and has incorporated words from all sorts of languages. The most common language of origin for #spellingbee words is Latin. The easiest is Late Greek. The most difficult, albeit with a small sample size, is Hebrew. 53eig.ht/2qWGfwl
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@ John Milton, though. x.com/haggardhawks/s…
A group of parrots is called a PANDEMONIUM.
While it’s Hindi root, ‘jaṅgal’, means forest, the Sanskrit etymon for both, ‘jaṅgala’, actually means ‘desert’. x.com/qikipedia/stat…
The word ‘jungle’ is used to describe the densest part of a rainforest - despite covering only 6% of the Earth’s surface, it is home to more than half the planet’s species.
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