@bytebro

You get to burn less of the group after Rob Watts has weighed in.

Especially as, even today and despite that 'years' is both countable and plural (either of the two non-equivalent forms of the supposed rule), you won't find people saying that Robert Baker only made up the rule from whole cloth *fewer* than 400 years ago.

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=BccyQaNKXz8&t=1032

#EnglishLanguage #fewer #less #RobWords

Grammar rules you can stop sticking to

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Ha, mein Plan für Neujahr steht! 😊

Zum Fest der Beschneidung des Herrn wird hier so gott- wie gnadenlos #RobWords gebinget.

https://www.youtube.com/@RobWords/videos

RobWords

Word facts and language fun. This is a channel for lovers and learners of English. It'll tell you where the words we use come from and why we say the things we say. YouTube sponsorships: [email protected] Rob's Agent: Antony Topping [email protected]

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Just discovered a #youtube channel #RobWords. After two videos (Hieroglyphs and Toki Pona) I subscribed to it and I am binging all his videos.
https://youtube.com/@robwords
RobWords

Word facts and language fun. This is a channel for lovers and learners of English. It'll tell you where the words we use come from and why we say the things we say. YouTube sponsorships: [email protected] Rob's Agent: Antony Topping [email protected]

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ANGLISH: English without the 'foreign' bits

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Danke für das Verlinken des brillanten #RobWords, @Exxo 🙏

Ja, die Grundidee war eine Rückkehr zu den jüdischen Namen. Aber dann wären Frauen immer noch unterrepräsentiert gewesen & es hätte sich die Frage nach der Repräsentanz weiterer Kulturen in der deutschen #Buchstabiertafel gestellt. Durch #Städtenamen ließen sich alle einbeziehen, mit Ausnahme von #Bremen auch alle Bundesländer. https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/b-wie-berlin-babylon-preussen-und-der-fossile-faschismus/

B wie Berlin - Babylon, Preußen und der fossile Faschismus

Es bleibt mir eine Ehre und Aufgabe, einst die Reform der deutschen, von den Nazis antisemitisch verformten Buchstabiertafel angestoßen zu haben. Und ich habe mir vorgenommen, über Jahre hinweg Deutschland in Form von eBooks neu …

Natur des Glaubens

Waaaah!

#TIL that [warranty and guarantee], plus [guardian and warden], are actually the same words. No, not just synonyms, but the same French words in different dialects! Back in the days of the Norman conquest of England, Normandy spoke a more Scandinavian flavour of French (because they came from Scandinavia - Norman = North men), which used the w sound when Parisian French used the gu sound.

So William the Conqueror would have been Guillaume in the other dialect.

My mind is blown. What else is being hidden from us!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PCE4C9GvqI0

#RobWords #Etymology #funfacts #language #linguistics #history

Is English really a Germanic language?

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@wisegreyowl

There was an interesting YouTube video with RobWords the other week about words for measurements that touched on the word "yard". The "yard" that is an enclosed area used to be spelled with a ''g' and has the same root as "garden".

#EnglishLanguage #RobWords

I just learned that the word “hello” is a recent invention brought on by the invention of the telephone as a way to initiate a conversation. And the original sign off suggestion was not “goodbye” but “that is all”. I want to use that from now on. #RobWords
We, as writers, don’t want to write in clichés though we often speak in them. I think the most apt contemporary term for “cliché”, in reference to its origins, would be “snippet” though I doubt we’ll ever hear anyone say “Oh God. This story is so snippet.”. Just learning about the origin of the word. Fascinating stuff. #RobWords #WritingCommunity