does anyone know if either "asaddle" or "a'saddle" is an acceptable albeit slang or shortened english word?

as in: "he sat a'saddle" or similar?

I swear I've heard it in conversational or written poetic english but I can't find anything supporting that.

#language #etymolgy

Looked up the answer and the mosaic from Roman times is sending me 😂 did not expect. There doesn’t seem to be a source cited. I wonder if it’s real. It looks so incongruous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbbell

#dumbbells #art #etymolgy #history

Dumbbell - Wikipedia

We are in the pumpkin season!

The diversity in Spanish vocabulary & its historical language contact. For example, during Arab rule in the Iberian Peninsula, Spanish borrowed words like “calabaza” from Arabic, which had Persian origins. In South America, Spanish adopted words from indigenous languages like “sapallu” (Quechua) or ayohtli (Nahuatl) or auyamá (Taino).

https://mapologies.com/el-atlas/

#pumking #calabaza #zapallo #fruit #ayote #veggies #language #etymolgy #etymologymap #spanish #español

El Atlas • M A P O L O G I E S

A collection of maps the diversity of the Spanish vocabulary and its varieties in America, Europe and Africa.

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Today is #Tuesday, literally “Tiw's Day”. Tiw or Týr was the God of war, just like #Greek Hermes' & Roman Mars' day. So yeah, today is basically the day of Mars. Is it also in your language? If only we could have a #Tuesdaywithoutwars

https://mapologies.com/planets

#panet #Mythology #mapologies #languages #etymolgy #etymologymap #marte #martes #mardi #day #etymologydaily

It's weird that among standard street names like Rd, St, & Ave there's also "Place".
"Yes, my address is a Location!"
#englishlanguage #etymolgy

Ooh exciting! I'm hitting that critical mass where two lovely people are talking about the same thing from wildly different viewpoints! A happy accident! Serendipity!

Here's an article on making these happen by design, which also covers making unhappy accidents happen by design, zemblanity!

This makes me happy because I've learnt new things about words and was one of the cool things about Twitter. 😀
NB follow those two!

#Serendipity #Zemblanity #Etymolgy #HappyAccidents #Twitter #Mastodon

Brilliant informative sessions with @jasonwade about #soundsandsyllables tonight #spelling #morphology #etymolgy #edutooter