TIL the #etymology of #Hoosiers.
Shouldn’t that be considered a banned DEI word?
“Hello, we interrupt this broadcast of the #NCAA #basketball tournament…”
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https://babbagefiles.xyz/no-one-can-be-told-what-irc-is-you-have-to-logon-for-yourself/
Visions and Implementations of a smooth #IRC (including @ircv3 things) experience, with focus on IRC bouncers and using them with #Emacs and on #mobile / #Android .
(With bonus material on Korean/Japanese/Chinese #etymology)
babbagefiles.xyz · Trials and Visions of Internet Relay ChatThis was meant to be a shortish bit on a couple of points on a decent IRC set-up, including:
some sort of persistence (a “bouncer” or the always-connected server) use with some sort of IRC client in Emacs some sort of reasonable mobile phone client It ended up longer than I intended.
The most useful bits here may be notes on how to set up clients to work with SourceHut’s chat.
Where do swear words come from?
~ Words Unravelled with RobWords and Jess Zafarris
(52min YouTube Podcast video)
Obviously, there’s a lot of swear words, so if you don’t like hearing swear words, you’ve been warned.
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I learned from the latest Big Issue that the old word "methinks" doesn't come from poorly-conjugated "me" + "thinks" ("I think") but actually comes from "(to) me" + "þyncan" ("seem"), so the word is literally "it seems to me".
www.etymonline.commethinks | Etymology of methinks by etymonlineit appears to me (now archaic or poetic only), from Old English me þyncð it seems to… See origin and meaning of methinks.
The word “crisp” originates from the Latin adjective “crispus,” meaning “curled,” “wrinkled,” or “having curly hair”.
It entered Old English as “crisp,” describing something curly or wavy, such as hair or wool.
Over time, “crisp” evolved to mean “brittle” by the 1520s, possibly due to the effect of cooking on flat items.
In the 19th century, #crisp came to describe things as “neat” or “fresh”.
I am greatly enjoying the audiobook of @stephenfry's Mythos, but I imagine this may be the jar situation in his home.
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Another English language and word-origins podcast that I’ve enjoyed, but haven’t been listening to of late, is A Way With Words with Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.
A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about languageA Way with Words – A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about languageLanguage examined through family, history, and culture: new words, old sayings, slang, word origins, linguistics, dialects, and more.
I love podcasts on English and word origins, and I’m a fan of Words Unraveled, a relatively new podcast by Jess Zafarris and Rob Watts (aka RobWords). This episode on swear words was a hoot.
Bonus: they swear all though the show, and you probably won’t see a single ad because of that 
Got curious about the #etymology of “ramifications”: it comes from “ramify”, to branch out, from ramus, Latin for branch. #Language
A AI etymology deconstructor – can guess fake words
deconstructor.deconstructor.truly understand language.
This feels like one of those things I already knew and just forgot about.
"When retired British army captain Charles Boycott, acting as an agent for an absentee landlord, tried to evict tenant farmers for refusing to pay their rent, he was ostracized by the [Land League] and community. [...] Boycott’s fate was soon well known, and his name became a byword for that particular protest strategy"
www.merriam-webster.comDefinition of BOYCOTTDefinition of 'boycott' by Merriam-Webster
Is there any relationship between the Mande word 'jugu' for 'dangerous' and 'juju' in other west African (mostly thinking Igbo but I've heard the word used by other speakers so I suspect it's either not actually Igbo, or one of those 'pan-African' terms) languages?
"Every" was originally a compound of two words in Old English: æfre (ever) + ælc (each), the former added for emphasis. You'll find "euerich" and the like in Chaucer.
Happy #InternationalWomansDay! While it may seem like a slightly odd way to mark this day, our video about “Chauvinism” explores some of the origins of misogyny and the early roots of feminism. https://youtu.be/iLuJ-BUSNcI
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Why do cheffy types say "aromats"? It comes across as pretentious. Can't they just say "aromatics"?
(It seems to be relatively recent. I never heard it used until a few years ago.)
Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News · 10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #148
I just used the word ‘stymied’ and realized I didn’t know its origin. Apparently it’s a Scottish term from golfing, where another player’s ball is blocking your line of putt. Before that the origin is unknown, though it’s also a Scottish word for a person who can’t see well. #Etymology
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1. this one should have been obvious to me, but spelling it out brought clarity: Europeans, for millennia, developed garments that were, generally, gender neutral. then, the #pandemic of the #plague of 1328 happened and things changed.
2. he goes a bit into the #etymology of the word MODA/MODE, but doesn’t explore it in English even though he quotes several English laws about dress. i reckoned that #fashion in english is top down, whereas #moda in Romance languages is bottom up, so…
