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This is why I only ever do Bonnie Tyler.
Can't fault it. Glorious.
Cheers, James
Our pleasure, Pete.
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Your brain is on another level.
Glad my discomfort is "entertaining".
Two very sensible pearls of wisdom, I reckon!
"Welshed" would never have sprung to mind, but you're absolutely right.
We have the linguistic titan that is John McWhorter on Words Unravelled this week.
We discussed profanities, slurs and taboos.
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I researched this after visiting Iceland. "Thing" went from being the meeting to the topic of the meeting, and from there became much vaguer. Exactly the same transfer happened in the Romance languages with Latin "causa" (case/cause) becoming French "chose", Spanish "cosa" etc. meaning "thing".
I forgot to mention Trader Joe's!
Spectacular. There were also people at my school who insisted Adidas was uh-DEE-dus.
Ha! I had a good go. Landed too hard on the last consonant.
Haribo passt so gut zu Adidas, Aldi, Rewe usw.
The Meaning of Liff is a true classic. I'm sure we'll mention it at some point.
Marvellous, thanks!
The Old English word for 'grapes' was adorable.
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Her Wurzels cover was even better
No! That was the only GOOD philia I could think of.
Dærick was already a top-level human, but now he's a fashionable one.
We did warn you!
I saw it used in a similar way to "to future-proof".
That plan is good but can we evergreen it?
I haven't spoken about it in a video, no. I used to work at a radio station that covered East Staffordshire, or Ea'Staffordshire, as it would almost always be said. I used to go out of my way to say both "st"s but I'm not sure why, really.
Good spot. Wardrobe has been through a French filter (see also, garderobe) and cupboard just a good ol' Germanic compound.
Yeah, it's worse when they're invoking the metaphor rather than an actual evergreen.
I would allow that, with a capital E.
Just read "evergreen" used as a verb. Nope.
That's the work of our piano-playing pal @martynmnw.bsky.social . Thanks for the Swedish pronunciation tip, it's very helpful. LAAAAAA-gom.