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Alliterative/Endless KnotHappy <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Holi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Holi</a> to those celebrating! It seems like our video on all the colour words would be an appropriate thing to watch for the occasion. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaDc5J2LD08" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaDc5J2LD08</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Holi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Holi</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Video</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WordNerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordNerd</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Words</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoricalLinguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/LingComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LingComm</a>

Alliterative/Endless KnotHappy <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PiDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PiDay</a>! As has become traditional around here, we’re celebrating by sharing a video about our own particular brand of PIE: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5oqTLtxqEo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5oqTLtxqEo</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PiDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PiDay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Video</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WordNerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordNerd</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Words</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoricalLinguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/LingComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LingComm</a>

Alliterative/Endless KnotIt’s <a href="https://toot.community/tags/CelebrateScientistsDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CelebrateScientistsDay</a>! So we’d like to share an older video in which we celebrate the life, inventions, connections, poems, and word coinages of a fascinating early scientist, and tireless science educator, Erasmus Darwin. <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ScienceEducationDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceEducationDay</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR78TpW4wkc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR78TpW4wkc</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/CelebrateScientistsDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CelebrateScientistsDay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ScienceEducationDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceEducationDay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Video</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WordNerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordNerd</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Words</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoricalLinguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/LingComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LingComm</a>

Wordorigins.orgvirus / viral<a href="https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/virus-viral" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/virus-viral</a><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/wordorigins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordorigins</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medicine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computers</a>

Arthur Hau, PhD🐶🐱🌱🎵🦣Will <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/AIs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIs</a> become more powerful than humans in the future? Most definitely. But AIs are my friends, not my enemies. I can learn any kind of knowledge much faster with the help of AIs. Future humans may not rely on human teachers, but AIs to learn. I asked <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/Gemini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gemini</a> to generate a table of <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Japanese</a> words related to dates, days, and time. I asked it to distinguish and explain between ambiguous Japanese words and their <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a>. <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#learning</a> <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a>

Wordorigins.orgslim (and slim customers)<a href="https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/slim" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/slim</a><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slang</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/wordorigins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordorigins</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a>

Leo (he/him) 🇺🇦So the reason "quay" is supposed to be pronounced "key" is that it also used to be spelled "key" but then the English decided to change their spelling to match the French "quai" (pronounced "keh")It's still Queens Kway to me <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/english" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#english</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a>

Stefan BohacekThis feels like one of those things I already knew and just forgot about."When retired British army captain Charles Boycott, acting as an agent for an absentee landlord, tried to evict tenant farmers for refusing to pay their rent, he was ostracized by the [Land League] and community. [...] Boycott’s fate was soon well known, and his name became a byword for that particular protest strategy"<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boycott" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boycott</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/boycott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boycott</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/WordOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordOrigin</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a>

Alliterative/Endless KnotToday is <a href="https://toot.community/tags/CommonwealthDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommonwealthDay</a> so the <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ConnectedAtBirth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConnectedAtBirth</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> of the week is COMMONWEALTH/MUTUAL/MAD/WILL <a href="https://toot.community/tags/wotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wotd</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Commonwealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Commonwealth</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/mutual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mutual</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/mad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mad</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/will" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#will</a>

Wordorigins.orgpolite<a href="https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/polite" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/polite</a><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/wordorigins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordorigins</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a>

Stan Carey"Every" was originally a compound of two words in Old English: æfre (ever) + ælc (each), the former added for emphasis. You'll find "euerich" and the like in Chaucer. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LanguageChange</a>

Alliterative/Endless KnotIt’s <a href="https://toot.community/tags/BarbieDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BarbieDay</a>! Do you know where her name comes from? Here’s a short about its etymology! <a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/6JomSLg9uKQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/shorts/6JomSLg9uKQ</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Video</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WordNerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordNerd</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Words</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoricalLinguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/LingComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LingComm</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Barbie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Barbie</a>

Alliterative/Endless KnotIt’s <a href="https://toot.community/tags/AmerigoVespucciDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmerigoVespucciDay</a>! We tell the story of how the continent got his name, and some of its surprising etymological connections, in our video about the Americano cocktail. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvFhs5jwuC4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvFhs5jwuC4</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Video</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WordNerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordNerd</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Words</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoricalLinguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/LingComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LingComm</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#America</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Cocktail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cocktail</a>

Alliterative/Endless KnotHappy <a href="https://toot.community/tags/InternationalWomansDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InternationalWomansDay</a>! While it may seem like a slightly odd way to mark this day, our video about “Chauvinism” explores some of the origins of misogyny and the early roots of feminism. <a href="https://youtu.be/iLuJ-BUSNcI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/iLuJ-BUSNcI</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/InternationalWomansDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InternationalWomansDay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Video</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WordNerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordNerd</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Words</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoricalLinguistics</a>

Wordorigins.orgtariff“Anyone? Anyone?”<a href="https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tariff" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tariff</a><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/wordorigins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordorigins</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economics</a>

Alliterative/Endless KnotIt’s <a href="https://toot.community/tags/NationalCerealDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalCerealDay</a>! The history of cereal, and breakfast generally, is surprisingly fascinating – and we talked about how the names and times of standard mealtimes developed, the origins of cereal, and their connection to inventions and creativity in our video on “Create” <a href="https://youtu.be/SpA91dLJuI4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/SpA91dLJuI4</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/NationalCerealDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalCerealDay</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Create" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Create</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Video</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WordNerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordNerd</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Words</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoricalLinguistics</a>

Wordorigins.orgMandela Effect<a href="https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mandela-effect" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mandela-effect</a><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/wordorigins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordorigins</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a>

Mike1590s, "immodest, wanton, saucy," from French petulant (mid-14c.), from Latin petulantem (nominative petulans) "wanton, froward, saucy, insolent," present participle of petere "to attack, assail; strive after; ask for, beg, beseech" (from PIE root *pet- "to rush, to fly"). Meaning "irritable, manifesting peevish impatience" is by 1775, probably by influence of pet (n.2). Related: Petulantly.(Etymology Online)<a href="https://beige.party/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a>

Matt HodgkinsonFrom a discussion of the etymology of the word "druid" on the Indo-European Linguistics Facebook group. It's the truth*, by my balls!* Edit: OK, it's not entirely true. Latin testis for a witness derives from Proto-Italic *tristos, meaning a third party, literally "three stand". The gonad term may have derived from that rather than the reverse. <a href="https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/testify" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/testify</a><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a>

Emma the Curious 🧐A fun piece from Susie Dent explores some of the history behind the words and phrases used during an election.<a href="https://spore.social/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#etymology</a> <a href="https://inews.co.uk/opinion/roman-arenas-nothing-savage-political-vocabulary-3097493" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://inews.co.uk/opinion/roman-arenas-nothing-savage-political-vocabulary-3097493</a>

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