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Alliterative/Endless Knot<p>Happy <a href="https://toot.community/tags/StPatricksDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StPatricksDay</span></a>!<br>It may be a rather obvious topic, but this old video about the Potato might be just the tasty morsel you’re looking for today!</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdPQ8zFUipw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=wdPQ8zFUip</span><span class="invisible">w</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/StPatricksDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StPatricksDay</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Etymology</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Video</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WordNerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordNerd</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoricalLinguistics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/StPaddysDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StPaddysDay</span></a></p>
Alliterative/Endless Knot<p>Happy <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Holi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holi</span></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"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=TaDc5J2LD0</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/Holi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holi</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Etymology</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Video</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WordNerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordNerd</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Words</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoricalLinguistics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/LingComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LingComm</span></a></p>
Alliterative/Endless Knot<p>Happy <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PiDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PiDay</span></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"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=k5oqTLtxqE</span><span class="invisible">o</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/PiDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PiDay</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Etymology</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Video</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WordNerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordNerd</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Words</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoricalLinguistics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/LingComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LingComm</span></a></p>
Stefan Bohacek<p>This feels like one of those things I already knew and just forgot about.</p><p>"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"</p><p><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boycott" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">merriam-webster.com/dictionary</span><span class="invisible">/boycott</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_</span><span class="invisible">Boycott</span></a></p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/boycott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boycott</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>etymology</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/WordOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordOrigin</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a></p>
The Conversation U.S.<p>From last November:<br>Y'all listening?</p><p>Y'all as a second-person plural pronoun is not just “the quintessential Southern pronoun.” A linguist has found uses going back to 1631 in England, hundreds of years before the more recent usages cited by the Oxford English Dictionary.</p><p>And its inclusiveness is also gaining new respect, you hear?</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/yall-that-most-southern-of-southernisms-is-going-mainstream-and-its-about-time-193265" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/yall-that-</span><span class="invisible">most-southern-of-southernisms-is-going-mainstream-and-its-about-time-193265</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/pronouns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pronouns</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/YAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YAll</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/LanguageMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LanguageMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Etymology</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>words</span></a></p>
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