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From Old English to Standard English: A Course Book in Language Variation Across Time | Dennis Freeborn

Recent home library acquisition:

📖 From Old English to Standard English (second edition): A Course Book in Language Variation Across Time by Dennis Freeborn

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dabbe

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | Anne Collins, Alexander McCall Smith

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView

From #wellrounded to #renaissanceman
From #poetry to #prose

Hard one today!

TheSpineView Yes, it was hard. However, you did great! 1mo

dabbe @TheSpineView 😍 1mo

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BookmarkTavern

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

It‘s raining outside, I‘ve got hot chocolate, the blanket right out of the dryer, and a lovely book. It‘s a perfect afternoon.

Do I have 10 different rain related words saved in my notes app? No comment.

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords @CBee

TheBookHippie 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 1mo

dabbe What a lovely word to say out loud! 💙🩵💙 1mo

CSeydel Oh I like that one 1mo

AnnCrystal 🌧️💝💝💝. 1mo

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Today‘s #weirdwords choice could make you hungry, or make you feel ill, depending on how you feel about peas 🫛😂 #weirdwordwednesday

CBee @slategreyskies @Lil1inblue @Deblovestoread @TheSpineView @BookmarkTavern @Cuilin @Kerrbearlib
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CBee @Megabooks @Daisey @TheBookHippie @Amiable @vivastory @Catlass007 @mandarchy @dabbe @IndoorDame @peanutnine @psalva 1mo

CatLass007 Great word! I hate canned peas but I love snow peas. 1mo

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CatLass007 Good morning! 1mo

CBee @CatLass007 good morning! I grew up on canned peas but once I tried fresh, I never wanted canned again! Same with asparagus! 1mo

CatLass007 My Mom used to tell a story that I don‘t remember happening but it sounds like me. When I was in daycare we couldn‘t get up from the lunch table until we cleaned our plates. When Mom came to pick me up after she got off work, I was still sitting at the table eating my peas. With. My. Knife. One. Pea. At. A. Time.🤣 1mo

Bookwormjillk These are fresh in my garden now and my daughter can‘t get enough. I‘ll have to let her know. 1mo

TheSpineView Thanks for the tag! BTW, I love snow 🫛 💚 1mo

TheBookHippie I love sugar snap peas!!! Yummmm. 1mo

Amiable I like snow peas, but my tongue is completely and utterly unable to pronounce French words! 😄 1mo

dabbe @Amiable Try this: mahnge-TOO (don't mind if I do!) 1mo

dabbe The only way I can eat frozen or canned peas is in a salad with lots of dressing. 🤣 1mo

willaful @Bookwormjillk I grow them too and can't wait. I eat them raw! 1mo

BookmarkTavern Yum! I love sugar peas! 1mo

CBee @CatLass007 wow, that is some serious dedication to peas 😂😂 1mo

CBee @Bookwormjillk yum! 1mo

CBee @Amiable ha! I do okay. My husband says I pronounce German fairly well which is a major feat 😂 1mo

CBee @dabbe perfect 🤩 1mo

Amiable @CBee German is way easier for me — my husband jokes that I inherited the “German gargle” from my ancestors because I can pronounce those harsh sounds much better than the French ones! 😄 1mo

CatLass007 More like serious dedication to no peas.😝😂😂 1mo

CBee @Amiable ha! The German gargle 😂😂 I‘ll have to tell hubby this 1mo

CBee @CatLass007 true. I think that was what I meant actually 😂🤪 1mo

CatLass007 I figured. It‘s weird. I like split pea soup. But it has flavor and canned peas just don‘t. 1mo

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#weirdwordwednesday #onathursday #weirdwords
A day late, but here we go! 😊

CBee @slategreyskies @Lil1inblue @Deblovestoread @TheSpineView @BookmarkTavern @Cuilin @Kerrbearlib @Megabooks @Daisey @Amiable @CatLass007 @TheBookHippie @IndoorDame @vivastory @mandarchy @dabbe @peanutnine @psalva 1mo

TheSpineView Great word! 🤩 1mo

CatLass007 Love it! 1mo

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dabbe Makes me wish that POLYGLUT existed ... as in someone who eats too many things at one sitting! 😍🤣😍 1mo

BookmarkTavern Such a fun word to say! 1mo

CBee @dabbe I thought something similar 😂😂 1mo

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dabbe

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords
@CBee
#allusion
#onceinabluemoon

I may have to have this beer tonight! 🤣

Aims42 Don‘t forget the orange 🍊🍻 2mo

dabbe @Aims42 Most definitely! 🧡🍊🧡 2mo

CBee Love this!!! 2mo

dabbe @CBee I'm having too much fun with these! 2mo

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Stumbled upon this word in my last read - The Devil and Mrs. Davenport (great book). I didn‘t know there was a specific word for speaking in tongues, but I mean, apparently there is a word for everything 😂🙌🏻 #weirdwords #weirdwordwednesday