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07.10.2025 20:10 β π 116 π 43 π¬ 6 π 4Half way point?
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late 13c., **oien, **nuien, "to harm, hurt, injure; be troublesome or vexatious to, disquiet, upset," from Anglo-French anuier, Old French enoiier "to weary, vex, anger," anuier "be troublesome or irksome to..."
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π©π©π©π©π©late 13c. from Late Latin, via Old French.
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TERMINAL OVERKILL - hits 150!
Thank you dear readers! I think my second novel for BL - and one that taught me a lot. And brought scrape to the underhive.
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To reach this momentβ¦
07.10.2025 16:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Always exciting to his this moment.
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The core talent you need.
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1938, coined, according to DuPont, from a random generic syllable **l- + -on, a common ending in fiber names (compare rayon and later Dacron), said to be ultimately from cotton.
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π©π©π©π©π©1938. A made up word.
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06.10.2025 19:35 β π 206 π 72 π¬ 2 π 4Moon rise this evening.
#midautumnfestival2025 #fullmoon
Filling the whole cast.
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late 15c., "to divert the attention, beguile, delude," from Old French **user "fool, tease, hoax, entrap; make fun of," literally "cause to muse" (as a distraction), from a "at, to" (from Latin ad, but here probably a causal prefix) + muser "ponder, stare fixedly" (see muse (v.)).
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Wishing my Chinese friends and followers a very happy Mid Autumn Festival!
06.10.2025 07:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nothing like a walk in a storm. Just keep away from trees.
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PILGRIMS OF FIRE hits a double century!
Thank you, dear readers!
Some of my favourite characters in this novel. Was a learning experience in many ways!
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late 14c., "sudden violent muscular contraction," from Old French **asme (13c.) and directly from Latin **asmus "a **asm," from Greek **asmos "a spasm, convulsion; wincing; violent movement."
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A bit of non fiction
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How England won the Women's World Cup
from Squidge
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formed from **de on model of breadth, and displacing wideness. Johnson (1755) calls it "a low word." OED (1989) characterizes it as "a literary formation."
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Just two words
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Time to switch.
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c. 1300, **oilen, "strip (someone) violently of clothes, strip a slain enemy," from Anglo-French espoiller, Old French espoillier, *spillier "strip, plunder, pillage" and directly from Latin *poliare "strip, uncover, lay bare; strip of clothing, rob, plunder, pillage."
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Italian painter Renato Casaro has passed. His movie posters defined a lot of the 80s for me.
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