It's a circuitous route via Greek, Latin, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare (and others) to get from Pandaros in the Iliad to "pander" in English.

#TheIliad #Greek #Latin #Boccaccio #Chaucer #Shakespeare #Pandaros #pander #etymology

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/12/21/how-an-obscure-character-in-the-iliad-gave-us-the-english-word-pander/

Wie es zum Start in die Ulm-Woche personell aussah, welche Ausbildungsstelle bei Hannover 96 zu vergeben ist und welche neue Funktion Ex-96-Profi Christian #Pander innehat, lest Ihr hier. ⬇️

#H96 #NiemalsAllein ⚫️⚪️💚
https://hannover96.de/newscenter/new…

Top ten (new) posts in November 2024

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/12/01/top-ten-new-posts-in-november-2024/

#alanMoore #America #bestTen #blood #book #charlesStansfeldJones #conservative #evangelical #facts #fear #fraterAchad #good #hermes #knowingly #knowledge #lilith #magic #magick #medievalIberia #mistletoe #moralPanic #moralityTale #mostlyWhite #music #November2024 #occultArts #omniumGatherum #paganism #pander #Prejudice #quote #reject #satanicPanic #Spanish #sun #topPosts #topTen #truth #unpardonable #willfully #wisdomTradition

#Trump #Attorneys Try To #Pander To #Corrupt #Conservative #Justice #BrettKavanaugh, #Fail

How #embarrassing for them.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate

https://abovethelaw.com/2024/03/trump-attorneys-try-to-pander-to-justice-kavanaugh-fail/

Word Search Puzzle 573

Word List : #lasso #blewits #flaubert #cariacus #pander #else #abody #toxodon #imitable #endevil #postures #sline #silurus #sculk #retender #gruels #salmonet #stases

http://karafinance.com/2024/02/27/word-search-puzzle-573/

Carissa had multiple online storefronts for her cupcakes. If you clicked on "Love Is Love," you got rainbow cupcakes and enby dinosaurs; if you clicked on "Men In Blue," you got thin-blue-line cupcakes; if you clicked on "V For," you got cupcakes in anarchist colors, and so on.

"How can you #pander so shamelessly?" demanded her roommate.

"It's not pandering, it's *catering*," Carissa insisted. "I'm catering to a diverse clientele, that's all."

#wss366, #microfiction

"Thanks for bringing us to the Bestiary, David," Zaza said.
The Better Angels wore sundresses walking through a surreal landscape populated by biological androids that replicated wild animals from across the galaxy.
"You're welcome! These places always seem a little weird & unnatural to me. Rather than educating the public, they merely…"
"#Pander!" shrieked Bebe.
"… That's what I was going to say," said David.
"No! Pander!" she screamed, pointing.
"I'm a panda," said the panda. "你好!"

#wss366