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πŸ† Twice nom. for Booker Prize πŸ“š Winner Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask, & Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prizes πŸ’‚β€β™€οΈCreator Minka Lesk 🌳 Gardener πŸ₯‚ Chef 🎩 Hat wearer 🎀 Podcaster 🎲 Gamer πŸŽ“ PhD

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Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Half 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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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩late 13c. from Late Latin, via Old French.

#etymology

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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.

#Necromunda #warhammercommunity #scrape #fatbergs

08.10.2025 07:55 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To reach this moment…

07.10.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Always exciting to his this moment.

#authorslife #amwriting

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The core talent you need.

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07.10.2025 07:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩1938. A made up word.

#etymology

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Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Moon rise this evening.

#midautumnfestival2025 #fullmoon

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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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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Late 15c. - although the original English senses are now obsolete.

#etymology

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a full moon in a dark night sky with clouds and stars ALT: a full moon in a dark night sky with clouds and stars

Wishing my Chinese friends and followers a very happy Mid Autumn Festival!

06.10.2025 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nothing like a walk in a storm. Just keep away from trees.

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords

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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!

#authorslife #warhammercommunity #warhammer40k #adeptasororitas #sistersofbattle

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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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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Late 14c from Greek via Latin and Old French.

#etymology

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A bit of non fiction

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So how did the Red Roses win the Rugby World Cup? | England v Canada Analysis | RWC2025
YouTube video by Squidge Rugby So how did the Red Roses win the Rugby World Cup? | England v Canada Analysis | RWC2025

How England won the Women's World Cup

from Squidge

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN_a...

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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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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩pre-1755, a 'low word' according to Dr. Johnson.

Derived from Old English.

#etymology

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Just two words

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02.10.2025 07:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩c.1300 from Old French. Meaning as moved on quite a bit.

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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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Psychic Distance….

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