David Astle (alias DA)

Word of the Day: MUFFIN-WALLOPER – (Victorian English) someone who likes a catch-up with a friend over a lovely cup of tea.

THE LAWYER (Palindrome)

O, dissent!
I wall a citadel.

Urge bites, liable.
Bill, law — all libel.
Bail set, I beg....

Ruled at, I call a witness, I do.

If you don't know what sort of boats Noah built - just arks

Some gems here - Intern Zhivago needs to happen

Does the word 'efficiency' really need both of those 'f's?

The image is a piece of fan art titled "Klimt Eastwood," created by Carl Tétreault in 2016. It depicts actor and director Clint Eastwood in a style inspired by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, specifically referencing Klimt's "The Kiss".

Please enjoy this Klimt Eastwood

Tower of Song

Fake prequels:

Muriel’s Hens Party
Apocalypse Due
Reservoir Pups
Triassic Park
Life of Omicron
1983
Refugee Kane
Love, Potentially
Recruiting Private Ryan
Saturday Afternoon Sniffle
4 Engagements and a Dodgy Ticker

Tune your g’daydar

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...

JOSEPH: got any rooms

INNKEEPER: no

JOSEPH: i want to see your manager

INNKEEPER: okay but i think it’s pronounced “manger”

“No word has all five vowels in order.”
“Are you being facetious?”

Hybrid is one label - identifying a word like television (with Greek + Latin roots). A more playful term is macaronic - or macaroni word

Using bogus words is infradigeous & showy-offy

If the Lords Prayer is too divisive for the House of Reps, maybe we should formulate a Hypocritic Oath

Crack the shits
Carry on like a pork chop
Not here to fuck spiders

Newsflash: AI is battling to cope with Australian slang. What other local phrases would melt the software?

@dontattempt.bsky.social

Blind people gesture (and why that’s kind of a big deal) superlinguo: People who are blind from birth will gesture when they speak. I always like pointing out this fact when I teach classes on gesture, because it gives us an an interesting perspective on...

Blind people gesture (and why that’s kind of a big deal) - original post from 2016, with a new research update from last year.

The language you speak influences gesture structure in a way that shows they're deeply linked in the way we learn and use language:

www.superlinguo.com/post/7896289...

THE PIGEONS ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO CATCH HERE SO GOING ON TO TRAFALGAR SQUARE TOMORROW.

Grandiloquent Word of the Day logo - Sepia-toned graphic with a baroque Victorian typeface and a pen-and-ink illustration of two young girls sitting and looking at a big book together.

Schmutzwortsuche [SHMOOTZ-vohrt-ZOOCH-eh]
(v.)
- Looking up naughty words in the dictionary.

From German "schmutz" (smudge or dirty) + "wort" (word) + "suche" (search)

Sentence:
"Low-key schmutzwortsuche, scrolling through the OED Online, is my favorite way to get through these dull lectures.”

PROVERB (Anagrammed Lines)

Once, it was said that
death is in two acts: A
cessation, with data,
and a white so static
it can eat its shadow....

Yen-nah

end of times

Absoliciously!

French sign saying (in French) "Crepes and chocolates", left arrow. "Cruel world", right arrow. Harvested from the webs, no idea of attribution.

It's very hard to discover the whereabouts of the best tribute bands because they've covered their tracks so well.

Yoda is among us. Believe you me

England's Chloe Kelly being interviewed after their Euros win, in front of an advertising hoarding displaying dozens of oblong tiles for different brands.

Not saying my 7yo son has been terminally tech-poisoned, but he's watching the English victory celebrations and has just said, in full seriousness, "look how many apps she has".

Behind the scenes - literally - at ABC Open House. So many wonderful, excited visitors. A reminder I don’t just talk into a nylon sock 4 nights a week

Original - now alternative - spelling:

14 dictionaries define the word per cent:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
per cent: Merriam-Webster
per cent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
per cent: Collins English Dictionary
per-cent, per cent: Wordnik
per cent: Cambridge Advanced…