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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords @CBee 📚💕

KadaGul 🤣🤣🤣🤣 4d

CBee Vim and vigor 😁😁 3d

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IndoorDame

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My favorite new word from this week‘s reading! #weirdwords #weirdwordwednesday @CBee

lil1inblue There really is a word for everything! 😂 4d

Tamra 😆 who knew?! 4d

RaeLovesToRead When they say shapely does "kind of rectangular" count? Asking for a friend.... ? 4d

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IndoorDame @RaeLovesToRead rectangle is definitely a shape, so I‘d say this word fits perfectly! 😄 4d

RaeLovesToRead Mine doubles up as a shelf 4d

CBee @RaeLovesToRead same 🙋‍♀️🫢😂 (edited) 3d

CBee @IndoorDame awesome word! 3d

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

This dinosaur name has taken me YEARS to get right, and I still don‘t know sometimes if I‘m saying it right 😂 Let‘s say it together - parasaurolophus, parasaurolophus, parasaurolophus. Here‘s a wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasaurolophus
#weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords 🤓 🦕

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CatLass007 Love this picture! 4d

CBee @CatLass007 who knew that dinosaurs enjoy coffee and books? 😂😂 (edited) 4d

TheBookHippie Love this 🦕🦖 4d

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rabbitprincess My fave dinosaur! 4d

AnnCrystal 🦖📙☕🦕 Love, love 🤩👍💝. 4d

CatLass007 There are only two things that make me different from this dinosaur. There are no cats snuggling nearby. I don‘t like socks 4d

TheSpineView Thanks for the tag! 4d

Daisey What a fun word & picture. I‘ve gotten into the busier part of my summer, so I‘m not sure how much I‘ll post, but I‘ll definitely still follow the hashtag as I can. 3d

CBee @CatLass007 I love socks but it‘s too hot to wear them now 🤷‍♀️ And my dogs are so weird and don‘t like to snuggle 😳😞 (edited) 3d

CBee @rabbitprincess yes but can you say the name five times really fast? I swear it still trips me up 😂😂 3d

CBee @Daisey no need to post regularly, just happy you‘d still like to follow ♥️ 3d

CBee @TheBookHippie never thought I‘d be jealous of a dinosaur 😂😂 3d

CatLass007 I wear sandals year round, unless there‘s snow on the ground. But we haven‘t been getting much of that lately. I am blessed with four cuddly kitties. Rarely all four at a time, unless I don‘t feel well. They just know.🐾💗 3d

CBee @CatLass007 I‘m very jealous! 🐈‍⬛ ♥️ 3d

CatLass007 People have so many preconceived ideas about dogs and cats. I‘m sorry your dogs don‘t like to snuggle. 🐶♥️ 3d

CBee @CatLass007 it‘s okay 😊 I love them anyway 😁 3d

CatLass007 Yeah, they‘re pretty hard not to love. Over the years, erm, decades, I‘ve been owned by cats with varying degrees of cuddliness. But they‘ve all been affectionate in their own ways. 3d

CBee @CatLass007 I miss having cats 🐱 3d

rabbitprincess @CBee Only because I‘ve had lots of practice 😂 My brother went through a dinosaur phase when he was small and my mum had such a hard time pronouncing the names, so she would just say “the dinosaur” and he‘d patiently teach her how to pronounce them 😂😂😂 (edited) 3d

CBee @rabbitprincess oh my goodness, that‘s very sweet ♥️♥️ 3d

CatLass007 @rabbitprincess That is a precious story. 3d

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lil1inblue

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

I have a feeling more than a few of us have felt finifugal when reading books. 😉
#weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords

BookmarkTavern Love this! 💕 2w

dabbe YES! 🤩🤩🤩 2w

IndoorDame Awesome word!!!!!! 1w

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lil1inblue @BookmarkTavern It's so me! 🤣💙 1w

lil1inblue @dabbe 💙🤩💙 1w

lil1inblue @IndoorDame Right! 💙 1w

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Nope, it doesn‘t have to do with food 😂 I‘m posting this definition as it means to “thwart” in the book I‘m currently reading (The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle). But the main definition is “a hole in a ship's side to carry water overboard from the deck.” 😁 #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords

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peanutnine I love the multiple definitions and how the meaning has evolved over time! 2w

RaeLovesToRead Do you not use scupper in the US? 2w

CBee @peanutnine same! 😃 2w

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CBee @RaeLovesToRead we don‘t. At least I‘ve never heard it before! 2w

RaeLovesToRead It always blows my mind which words we don't share lol. I will have to get one of you lot to read through my dialogue if I write an American character 🤣🤣 Like, Rae, why do all your characters sound like they're from the East Midlands?? Haha 2w

CBee @RaeLovesToRead I would totally help with that! 2w

AmyG I thought it was a kind of fish. Similar to a kipper. In the herring family 😳 2w

rubyslippersreads There used to be a restaurant called The Rusty Scupper, so I always thought it was some kind of metal pail used on a ship. 😏 2w

RaeLovesToRead I should totally make up some fake British-isms to perplex you and @The_Penniless_Author 🤔🤔🤔 2w

CBee @AmyG it does sound fish like! 2w

CBee @rubyslippersreads aw cool! Seafood place, I‘m guessing? 🍤 🐟 🦀 2w

CBee @RaeLovesToRead oh please, I‘d love it. My ancestry is British and Scotch-Irish, but mostly British. I so want to live there 😁 2w

CatLass007 There was a movie with John Wayne and Ray Milland called Reap the Wild Wind. John Wayne played a sea captain who is accused of deliberately scuppering his own ship. This is not to be confused with Wake of the Red Witch, in which John Wayne also played a sea captain. I know the character Wayne played in Reap the Wild Wind was killed by a giant octopus. His character may have been killed in Wake of the Red Witch also. 2w

dabbe I especially love it as a verb: How dare you? You scuppered my sailboat, y'olde arse! 🏴‍☠️ 2w

Amiable @rubyslippersreads I also thought immediately about The Rusty Scupper! 😀 2w

The_Penniless_Author @RaeLovesToRead Take your best shot. I know all your Britishisms. All of them! (Including scupper. I think I even used it in one of my books. 😁) 2w

The_Penniless_Author @RaeLovesToRead Incidentally, one of my favorite books to read to Laura when she was tiny was Scupper the Sailor Dog. 🐶⛵️ 2w

CBee @The_Penniless_Author that‘s so cute 🥰 1w

CBee @dabbe 😂😂😂😂 1w

CBee @CatLass007 a giant octopus! Wow 😮 1w

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Deblovestoread

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#WeirdWords

I hate raisins and now I know why, suffering of any kind is 👎🏼 😂. Sorry for the language

@CBee

SamAnne Hah! 3w

CBee This is AWESOME and I hate raisins too 😂😂 3w

UwannaPublishme I love raisins, but didn‘t know they were suffering so much. 😁 2w

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vivastory

Gone to the Wolves: A Novel | John Wray

“What does mesomorphic mean?“ she asked him.
It seemed like a word Kip should have known-the version of himself that Kira liked, at least, which was the version he was constantly trying to be,,...
“Cool name for a band,“ he got out finally.
#weirdwords @cbee

CBee 😂😂😂😂 3w

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dabbe

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#WeirdWordWednesday
#weirdwords
@CBee

Hey, parent(s) of #CatsOfLitsy, did you know that this is who you are? I sure didn't! 💙🐱💙

rubyslippersreads I knew. I come from a family of ailurophilea. 😸 4w

IndoorDame I did not! That‘s awesome! Thanks! ❤️😽 4w

dabbe @rubyslippersreads 🖤🐾🖤 4w

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dabbe @IndoorDame 🖤🐾🖤 4w

Jari-chan Good to know! Thanks for sharing 😸 3w

dabbe @Jari-chan 🖤🐾🖤 3w

kspenmoll New word for this cat lover! 3w

dabbe @kspenmoll Cool! 🖤🐾🖤 3w

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Immediately thought of “squint,” and apparently it‘s a similar meaning 😀 Plus a cool architectural thingy. Enjoy ☺️☺️ #weirdwords #weirdwordwednesday

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CatLass007 Thanks! I want you to know that I always share these with my youngest nephew (18!!?) who enjoys learning new words. 4w

CBee @CatLass007 that makes me very happy 😊♥️ 4w

CatLass007 Me too! Except for the fact that he‘s not a baby anymore.👶 4w

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TieDyeDude Not quite the same thing, but my first thought seeing this was the Grand Central Terminal “Whispering Gallery“ https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grand-central-terminal-whispering-gallery 4w

dabbe Who knew there was a word for that? And such a fun one to say out loud! 🤩🤗😀 4w

Amiable Ooh, that's a good one! 4w

CBee @CatLass007 they really do grow up way too fast 😳 3w

CBee @TieDyeDude that is the coolest - thanks for sharing 🤗 3w

CatLass007 😱 3w

CBee @dabbe I think I‘ll use squinch rather than squint from now on, just for fun. And to confuse people 😀😂 3w

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Daisey

Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks | Keith Houston

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This was an interesting book about symbols we use in writing, their history from handwritten manuscripts to modern printing, and further changes with online text. I especially enjoyed the chapters on the pilcrow, octothorpe, and manicule, all of which I also think qualify as weird words. I was not as interested in the discussion of irony and sarcasm and attempts to identify them in print.

#nonfiction #audiobook
#WeirdWords #WeirdWordWednesday

CBee Definitely weird words! Very cool 😊 1mo

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