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“Words Christmas Gave Us” festive history
“Words the Vikings Gave Us” Norse nouns
“Words the Sea Gave Us” nautical words
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“How To Get Your Name In The Dictionary” eponyms
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My #mysteryword month is now complete. If you relish unusual words and their stories you might dip into my weekly Wordfoolery Blog (wordfoolery.wordpress.com/), my books (wordfoolery.wordpress.com/my…), or my monthly newsletter (subscribepage.io/wordfoolery…).
Happy February!
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Jan 31
#mysteryword Day 31 - joblijocks
Morning disturbance, for example by a small child. 1700s. Yorkshire dialect.
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Jan 30
#mysteryword Day 30 - blutterbunged.
Confounded by disgust or joy. Lincolnshire dialect.
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Jan 30
I'll be chatting to Gerry on LMFM radio around 2 o'clock about the word history of throttlebottom, bugbear, bribe, and chivvy. Our mystery word is mubble-fubbles. Listen at lmfm.ie/ and I'll share podlink in comments later.
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Jan 28
#mysteryword Day 28 - betwattled.
Confused. 1600s English dialect.
From twattle (gossip).
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Jan 28
“Linda, what’s this old library event you ran? It’s called Kicking the Bucket, was that a game?”
#1linewed "The Librarian's Secret Diary"
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Jan 28
This week's episode of The Librarian's Secret Diary, my serial fiction @_Channillo , is now available for subscribers to read. Nina re-cycles a library event from the past and learns about a very unusual form of garden composting. channillo.com/series/the-lib…
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Jan 26
#mysteryword Day 26 - Ferlie. Wonderful or marvellous. Scots. From Old Norse ferligr (dreadful).
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Jan 26
This week's word on the blog is hooch (with a side of moonshine and bootlegging) - some words the Gold Rush gave us. Read more at wordfoolery.wordpress.com/20…
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Jan 25
#mysteryword day 25 - perissology.
The use of more words than necessary.
From the Greek for superfluous.
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Jan 24
#mysteryword day 24 - badkruka
a cowardly bather - one who lowers themself slowly into cold water.
This is a Swedish word - bada (bathe) and kruka (coward).
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Jan 23
#mysteryword Day 23 - drotchel
A lazy person. 1700s, Scots.
Possibly from dretch - a verb used by Chaucer meaning to idle.
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Jan 22
"How to Get Your Name in the Dictionary"
260 eponyms named for heroes and villains - from atlas to zeppelin. Ideal for word geeks, history lovers, and biography buffs.
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Jan 22
#mysteryword Day 22 - exsibilate - to hiss a poor actor off the stage. From Latin.
Seems an appropriate word for the day the Oscar nominations are released, no hissing for them I'm sure.
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Jan 21
The boy insisted on pulling a monster face each time I took the photo. In the end I re-shuffled the lineup, putting him on the far right and simply cropped him out of the image.
#1linewed "The Librarian's Secret Diary"
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Jan 21
This week at the library Nina is thinking inside the box, managing unruly eight year olds, while Oscar the Library Cat finds a new place to snooze. Subscribe and read at channillo.com/series/the-lib…
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