#Etymology

Jeannette Ng 吳志麗

jeannette_ng

The folk etymology of 馒头(steamed bun) is an interesting illustration of cultural identity.Mantou comes frm Turkic, just as the filled dumpling itself is probably from Central Asia. There are cognates

Peter Sokolowski

PeterSokolowski

SANITY originally meant "health" from the 1400sSANE originally meant "healthy"HEALTHY came into use as SANITY shifted to mean "soundness of mind"SANITARY & SANITIZE enter the language in the 1800s, after

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DHAhole

I'm an older Gen-Xer and probably clueless, but I have an honest question on Twitter gender identifications. Many of the accounts I follow list he/him, she/her, or they/them. Why are

Tommaso Valletti

TomValletti

Important THREAD on the etymology of CAPPUCCINO.First the spelling. It’s not capacino, capucino, capucinno, etc.It's CAPPUCCINO (singular), 2P’s, 2 C’s, 1N. CAPPUCCINI (plural), still 2P’s 2C’s, 1N.Second the etiquette. 1/

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

Words flow from the world of physical space to the world of mental space. Once you learn this, it is impossible to speak one sentence without seeing the spatial implications

Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle)

Kiraofthewind1

Came across this on another site: “If someone uses the word ‘okay’ in a fantasy story, it immediately takes me out of the story.”Let me tell you why I use

Andrew Young

SpartanVTyranny

I'm drinking at the cottage so it's time for me to mount a Freudo-Marxist critique of an underlying problem with Dungeons and Dragons (henceforth D&D).[If you're 1. following me and

TheRegressivePoet

PoetRegressive

I was surprised when I first learned the etymology of "amateur", but now I frequently use it in this sense. Glad to see someone smarter than me has helped set

sloydgroyper 🌲🇸🇪

sloydgroyper

Find burl.Take burl.Carve burl.Cook burl in a salt solution.Dry burl before continuing. #kåsa #kuksa If someone is interested in etymology... The Swedish word for it is "kåsa" and it comes

Emily Brown

emilybrownmusic

eating dinner in our yard on the ground, passing a guitar around the room, giving impromptu academic presentations on various books in my house, seeing if anyone wants a cup

elizabeth

bitchardthe3rd

fun language fact: the phrase “you guys” wasn’t originally gendered — it didn’t originally refer to a group of men. it actually goes back to guy fawkes, aka this guy!

Mary Myatt

MaryMyatt

Just read @joenutt_author latest 'Teaching English for the Real World' via @JohnCattEd and it's stunning'Provoke children to think before they write down their thoughts'/1https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1912906953/re

That Gina woman over at LeX💃

GinaCookeLEX

It is patently false that digraphs are the result of an alphabetic inventory insufficient to the task of spelling English phonemes. That would fail to explain the following digraphs, all

kashmirilang

kashmirilang

bìpersonal pronoun— I (first person singular) A proposed etymology for bì is from Skt. vayam "we" Bì is odd among IA first person singular pronouns in that it doesn't descend

enthu-cutlet

_waabi_saabi_

TIL that prior to the adoption of the internationally accepted A4 std sheet, Britain's standard paper size was called "foolscap". Its unique name is because the paper was watermarked with

Pallando the Blue

KomninosM

One of the least discussed entities of Hellenic paganism is Gello, usually written off as just a scary creature used to frighten children. Yet, the Gello is attested for a