Italian word for "hamster" is from Czech (via the scientific name)?
These little <insert preferred expletive based noun here>s were out in force today. Biro nib for scale.
But in the interest of testing out the polls with media feature, what non-sweary name do you call them? I’m curious if they are as multi-named as ladybirds and sow pigs.
Poll typo: Thrip should be Thrips.
Park The Bus!
The Corridor!
The False Nine!
Total Football!
#Soccer’s distinctive phrases and idioms decoded.
Pinked flannel doesn’t fray very easily, and the cover will help protect it further.
I knew that the color pink was named for the flower that’s called a pink in English. (Dianthus)
Pinks have zigzag edges, so I always assumed that’s why the special shears were named that.
It seems not to be the direct reason (see https://www.etymonline.com/word/pink), though the name probably comes from one of the same words used to name the flower.
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When is a word used as a slur in a historical context? How to deal with it? I dug into a recent that claim that Frank Sinatra had sung a slur in one of his #songs in 1958. This was a more complex topic to understand from an #etymology, #history and #social contexts than I thought it would be.
atone / atonement
https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/atone-atonement
DIY traps are going viral as potentially worse-than-usual season starts to bite
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mosquito-dunk-bucket-of-doom-bti-trend-tiktok-9.7243198
Buridan's procrastinator ⁂
CurlyParakeet 🇪🇺🏳️🌈🇺🇦
Alliterative/Endless Knot
Anna Anthro
Naomi P
Johan Schalin
unattributed 𓂃✍︎
Wordorigins.org
Daniel English
Bruce MacDonald