Laid out the scope of my research (its grown and shifted a bit). Feel free to contribute if you are able so I can take the time from the day job to research.

https://ko-fi.com/post/July-1863-Changed-the-War-T6T8P3IUR

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Thank goodness I watched today's new #GiveItToMeStraight interview - Maddy Morphosis gave Bumpits to Chrissy Chlapecka at the end. I have now added BUMPIT (2008) to my list of #CutthroatCompounds. It's not in the OED. https://youtu.be/vFdQEpYegYY?si=OXBIlcfm8rnL6Eci&t=3596 #AmResearching

So this happened ...

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TIL: That in 1862 the US Department of the Interior actually signed a contract with two men to establish a colony in Haiti in which to settle free blacks.

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#WeHaveBeenScrewingUpHaitiForAWhile

TFW you’re checking a bird fact, so you Google ‘swift legs’, and end up being presented with loads of photos of Taylor Swift’s expensively insured legs.

(Well, that’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it.)

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I fear my deep dive (pun absolutely intended) into gannet adaptations might have got a little out of hand. #AmWriting #AmResearching #birds

I finally made a @wordnik list of -EZ surnames, which all came into Spanish through the Visigoths in the 400s-700s. -EZ means SON OF, so MARQUEZ is son of MARCO. Want 100 more examples? Here's the list: https://www.wordnik.com/lists/ez-visigoth-surnames-UTTNf4OUxNRePXzvJVMp6 #AmResearching

Mesmerized by this 2016 TEDx talk by Dr Kimberlé Crenshaw on the urgency of intersectionality.

https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality

#intersectionality #academia #WomensRights #BlackLivesMatter #AmResearching #Feminism #PoliceViolence #ViolenceAgainstWomen #BlackWomenMatterToo @academicchatter

Another day, another beautiful chance to hear a spontaneously created cutthroat in an improv podcast. Today it's a woman pretending to be a butler named MR. DENY-FIRE (A play on MRS. DOUBTFIRE) from the opening bit of Hey Riddle Riddle: https://omny.fm/shows/hey-riddle-riddle/264-lightning-strikes-out

(DOUBTFIRE itself is a real surname, which can be reinterpreted as a cutthroat, or maybe has been one the whole time. It's also spelled as DOUTFIRE, and DOUT means extinguish [see images from ht.ac.uk]. But this lineage site says DOUT means manly: https://www.houseofnames.com/doubtfire-family-crest There's always more to learn.) #AmResearching

@joestynes Joe! What an absolute star you are. It's SO useful to get clarity about slang compounds, no matter what form they turn out to be. I have a separate list called "Not Real Ones" for remembering such entries and avoiding future questions about them... and now curry-fav(el/our) can join its many toady companions! Hope you have a lovely week, thank you 😊 #AmResearching

What the hell do CURRY-FAVOUR and CHERISH-THIEVES mean? I assume one is a sycophant, but can't find it used as a noun or adj outside of this Googbook "English Past and Present" (1889) And cherishthieves... could be a criminal? A chaotic person? Not a person at all? A plant? Truly no idea. #AmResearching

Yesterday I remembered how to use COUNTIF and SUM functions in Excel, so I made some new #CutthroatCompound productivity charts - it has revealed to me that through their recency and my active searching, I have found just about the same amount in the first 20 years of the 2000s as I have found in all of the 1900s. This tells me I need to look at lists of 20th century consumer products and joke/gaming publications to find less famous nonce instances that I would have found living through daily life in those times. #AmResearching

Is... CHEEZ-IT (1921)... a #CutthroatCompound? A cracker that has been cheezed? Probably not, but maybe. The phrase CHEESE IT! is from 1811. Other -ITs: LITTLE MISS FIXIT (1911), IT'S IT (1928), WHATCHAMACALLIT (1942), POST-IT note (1975), TAKE IT candy bar (2013). It seems more likely to be endocentric (an It with Cheez, a cheesy thing), but I'd like it to be a verb. For fun. But it doesn't make sense. But maybe. #AmResearching

A bullet journal. Its hardcopy my I found one small enough to carry around. I can add pages or sections as needed. When this project is done, I can take out the pages and reuse it for the next one. I found poroject pages I can use for each event to track sources, while there are also plain pages for brainstorming. Now off to go play with it rather than research.

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FUNABLES - they took an adjective, added a suffix to it normally used on verbs, and then made it a plural noun. English and its morphology are wild, man. #AmResearching #AmShopping

I have a pregnant character in my pseudo-Victorian-London fantasy WIP, which has led to reading 19th Century advice books about pregnancy and the lying in. https://www.victorianweb.org/science/maternity/uvic/7.html has links to quite a few of the manuals.

So far, my favourite is by William Bull, 1865, in which he explains that, while some women claim labour is excruciating, it doesn't seem that painful to him, and what do women in labour even want chloroform for anyway?

Reading through the whole chapter, it is apparent that he firmly believes that if women were doing it right, it wouldn't hurt. You only have your weak little minds to blame, ladies. 1/

#writing #AmResearching #VictorianEra #pregnancy #history #AdviceBooks

I just wrote the words "general got the yips." So how is your Friday night going?

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I've made a new @wordnik list for Clothing items named for how you put them on: https://www.wordnik.com/lists/how-you-put-the-clothing-on-buJ8h89twxhulFeCpvnRk #AmResearching

Related: a list of clothing items defined by the parts they are missing https://www.wordnik.com/lists/clothing-missing-parts #AmResearching

Clothing items named for the action of putting them on: pullover sweaters, lace-up boots, strap ons, slip-on shoes, ties, pull-ups (diapers) what else? #AmResearching