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Today's Etymonline weather report and daily Jumble clues.

"And the fire and the rose are one." Cut 5 and 8 and it flows top to end like a sermon heard from a distant room.

Today's etymonline weather forecast and Emily Dickinson rough draft. Feels more cheerful than usual. "Hello, enigma!" "Good morning, Science!" Do you like this hat? No.

Cinderella Undercover The imposition of modern senses onto an old word for shock value.

Hot off the press and educational as all:

but she is!

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Today's etymonline weather forecast and aria libretto. It opens mundane but comes to life midway. "Gauze philosophy." "Holy resilience!" Then the villain-name du jour, "Histamine Rigmarole."

thanks for the tip. Numbers are endless fun to sift and stack. Sometimes, very occasionally, you can stack them in ways that catch a glimpse of insight into the past. But they are deadly because the internet thinks everything is reducible to code. It is not. The important things are not.

Today's Etymonline Weather Forecast and Poetry Slam Stage Name Generator (dibs on Resilient Doughnut)

Today's Etymonline Weather Report and Wierdle Answers

[must have been a quiz out there somewhere yesterday, involving place names in "-mouth." As for the rest of it, there's a "trending" trend for the last five or six words on the list to form a subplot of their own, occasionally whimsical].

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English and French get along like step-sisters raised together. English and German are twins separated at birth.

Today's Etymological Weather Report and Bridge Hand

The top two cards offer devilish clever twists in the forked senses of "assumption."

From about no. 5 to the end they begin to draw pairs. "Nice morning. Spooky culture. Gossip. Memoir." A casual chat or a life story in six words?

lol, of course there will be two American calendars. The parody writes itself.

sssh! it only gives them notions.

heh. or Trumpuary (that 'yoo' face). But the shortest month? He'd slap that back.

Keep it under your hat that Roman emperors also got whole months renamed after themselves. Once word is out that branding the calendar is the badge of a mighty ruler, brace yourself for Dontober.

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Today's etymonline "trending words" weather report-slash-band-name-generator. Better jump on "Nifty Kamchatka" before it's taken. Sage advice at 4.-5. Current Events from 6. to the end, Punctuate at will, Gridley:

Today's weather report-cum-beat poetry. More reliable than an n-gram! Punctuate as desired.

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well OK then

For Me and My Gals I love the word “gal” and use it quite a bit in my speech. So it came as a bit of a surprise to be told recently by a friend that she would never use the word. In fact, she said, she finds the use …

The case for "Gal."

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opens with thrums in the night

Lost in the Library The garbled, astonishing life of Miss Elizabeth Ham

A bundle of broken mirrors

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Straight Arrow to a crooked road.

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A busy week. Zilches and Bongos.
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Jamboree in a Jay Town The imagined alphabet

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The internet was today years old when it learned Doug Harper did another podcast!

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A pivot not an end but an end.