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𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉Persian and English etymologies of the day
Nowruz is the Persian New Year festival at the Spring Equinox (20th March). Nowruz means "new light"; Persian now (pronounced like English "no") comes from Proto-Indo-European *neu-io, something like this:
🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-neuio-to-Persian-noo.wav
Tajik рӯз and Persian روز ruz descends from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- [lɘʊk]:
🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-leuk-to-Tajik-ruz.wav
(Tajik is also an Iranian language, very similar to Iranian Persian.)
*leuk- also developed into words for "day" in other Iranian languages, e.g. Balochi روچ [roʧ], something like this:
🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-leuk-to-Balochi-roch.wav
Kurdish roj [roʒ]:
🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-leuk-to-Kurdish-roj.wav
English “new” and “light” are from the same roots, *neu-io and *leuk-
🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/new-from-PIE-neuio.wav
“Light” comes from Proto-Indo-European *leuk-, something like this:
🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/light-from-PIE-leuk.wav
Image source:
https://blog.izapya.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/noroz1.jpeg
Kerr Avonsen (she/her)Today I Learned that it isn't that I'm particularly bad at detecting sarcasm: it's that Australians are notoriously subtle with our sarcasm; that it is pretty standard that the only way one can detect whether an Australian is being sarcastic is if you can logically deduce, by knowing that person well, as to whether that statement is likely to be sarcastic or not. Sarcastic statements are often spoken straight, without any change of tone of voice. Part of our incomprehensible inpenetrable charm.
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Word of the DayApril 1 Wikipedia featured article
Dirty Dick, real name Nathaniel Bentley (c. 1735 – 1809), was an English merchant known for his filthy appearance. Once nicknamed "the beau of Leadenhall Street", in his late thirties Bentley became parsimonious and stopped cleaning himself and his shop. He and his shop became well known and were lampooned in the press. People visited the outlet to see the squalor and noted that he was polite and had impeccable manners. Rumours circulated that he had not washed since his fiancée had died on their wedding eve and that he had locked the dining room, complete with the wedding feast, and left it to moulder. Bentley moved out of his shop in 1804 and its contents were sold off. A publican purchased some of the contents, including mummified rats and cats, and used them to decorate his pub, which he renamed Dirty Dicks. Bentley died in Scotland. His story was known by the writer Charles Dickens, and Bentley's locked dining room may have inspired the locked room of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations.
#Wikipedia #Featured #English
Dirty Dick, real name Nathaniel Bentley (c. 1735 – 1809), was an English merchant known for his filthy appearance. Once nicknamed "the beau of Leadenhall Street", in his late thirties Bentley became parsimonious and stopped cleaning himself and his shop. He and his shop became well known and were lampooned in the press. People visited the outlet to see the squalor and noted that he was polite and had impeccable manners. Rumours circulated that he had not washed since his fiancée had died on their wedding eve and that he had locked the dining room, complete with the wedding feast, and left it to moulder. Bentley moved out of his shop in 1804 and its contents were sold off. A publican purchased some of the contents, including mummified rats and cats, and used them to decorate his pub, which he renamed Dirty Dicks. Bentley died in Scotland. His story was known by the writer Charles Dickens, and Bentley's locked dining room may have inspired the locked room of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations.
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📕 Word of the Day: shenanigans
shenanigans • \shuh-NAN-ih-gunz\ • plural noun
Shenanigans is an informal word used to refer to activity or behavior that is either not honest or proper, or is mischievous or high-spirited. Its oldest meaning, and the one most likely to be encountered as the singular shenanigan, is “a devious trick used especially for an underhanded purpose.”
// The CEO resigned amid accusations of financial shenanigans and dubious deals.
// The tween sleepover shenanigans involved goofy hats, fake mustaches, and giggles galore but everyone eventually fell asleep.
📝 Examples:
“Do you remember what it was like to be bored—like really bored? As a Gen Xer, I didn’t grow up scrolling social media or playing endless hours of ‘Minecraft’ to keep me busy; instead, I spent a fair amount of my free time after school crafting the perfect prank call. ... In retrospect, it was time well spent. Well, maybe. Some shenanigans may have gone too far.” — Elana Rabinowitz, The Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
📜 Did you know?
Fool us once, shame on you; fool us twice, shame on us. Either way, we call it shenanigans, employing a word whose history is as slippery as the monkey business it names. We know that the word likely first appeared in print in the 1850s in the western United States. But most theories of its genesis assert that it was born in the British Isles, with potential origin words referring to such things as silly behavior, feigned illness, and a sweet rum-beer libation. Although the “underhanded trick” sense of the word is oldest, the most common senses in use now are those referring to the dishonest or improper activity of “political shenanigans,” or to the high-spirited or mischievous behavior of “youthful shenanigans.”
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shenanigans • \shuh-NAN-ih-gunz\ • plural noun
Shenanigans is an informal word used to refer to activity or behavior that is either not honest or proper, or is mischievous or high-spirited. Its oldest meaning, and the one most likely to be encountered as the singular shenanigan, is “a devious trick used especially for an underhanded purpose.”
// The CEO resigned amid accusations of financial shenanigans and dubious deals.
// The tween sleepover shenanigans involved goofy hats, fake mustaches, and giggles galore but everyone eventually fell asleep.
📝 Examples:
“Do you remember what it was like to be bored—like really bored? As a Gen Xer, I didn’t grow up scrolling social media or playing endless hours of ‘Minecraft’ to keep me busy; instead, I spent a fair amount of my free time after school crafting the perfect prank call. ... In retrospect, it was time well spent. Well, maybe. Some shenanigans may have gone too far.” — Elana Rabinowitz, The Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
📜 Did you know?
Fool us once, shame on you; fool us twice, shame on us. Either way, we call it shenanigans, employing a word whose history is as slippery as the monkey business it names. We know that the word likely first appeared in print in the 1850s in the western United States. But most theories of its genesis assert that it was born in the British Isles, with potential origin words referring to such things as silly behavior, feigned illness, and a sweet rum-beer libation. Although the “underhanded trick” sense of the word is oldest, the most common senses in use now are those referring to the dishonest or improper activity of “political shenanigans,” or to the high-spirited or mischievous behavior of “youthful shenanigans.”
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Dr Pink#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert
Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?
Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo
* Philippine Undersecretary for Foreign Relations and Public Affairs (born 1991)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Mae_Yu_Lamentillo
Discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Anna_Mae_Yu_Lamentillo
The CrosbyReport™Calistoga California: How we spent our 6th anniversary, and I do mean “spent.”
We spend our 6th anniversary at a BnB.
#beer #book #california #calistoga #english #food #french #garden #highway #lake #mountains #northamerica #retirement #sanfrancisco #traffic #travel #unitedstates
https://www.crosbyreport.com/travel/calistoga-california-how-we-spent-our-6th-anniversary-and-i-do-mean-spent/?fsp_sid=290
We spend our 6th anniversary at a BnB.
#beer #book #california #calistoga #english #food #french #garden #highway #lake #mountains #northamerica #retirement #sanfrancisco #traffic #travel #unitedstates
https://www.crosbyreport.com/travel/calistoga-california-how-we-spent-our-6th-anniversary-and-i-do-mean-spent/?fsp_sid=290
DailyEnglish🇬🇧 **Word of the Day:** plan
⬇️ Example sentences in the image below!
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