Morning world. I nearly had a good night's sleep. Nearly.

Yesterday's #WOTD was LOLLOP. Some good funny answers to that. It means flop about, or move in ungainly bounds.

Today's word: ALMONER.

#WOTD #WordOfTheDay #EnglishLanguage

Morning world. It’s a bit cooler this morning. About time, too.

Yesterday's #WOTD was BEVVY. It’s a slang word, a shorter form of BEVERAGE.

Today's word: LOLLOP.

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Morning world. The promised storm arrived - but a long way north of us.

Yesterday's #WOTD was DEPILATE. It means to remove hair from something.

Today's word: BEVVY.

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Morning world. The promise of a storm today. We shall see.

Yesterday's #WOTD was MATTOCK, a tool like a pickaxe with adze and chisel edges as ends of the head.

Today's word: DEPILATE.

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Morning world. This late summer heatwave is no fun for sleep.

Yesterday's #WOTD was LACUNA, the missing part of a manuscript.

Today's word: MATTOCK.

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Morning world. Autumnal mist has hidden the world outside the curtains, colour a thing of yesterday.

Yesterday's #WOTD was PREPONDERATE, to be superior in influence, quantity or number.

Today's word: LACUNA.

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I have spent a good chunk of this evening calling people in California and Texas on behalf of my employer.

Much of my time was spent trying to get people to understand what I was saying.

My accent isn't even that thick 😭 I understood everyone fine 🙃

Oscar Wilde was right in The Canterville Ghost:

"We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language".

#USvUK #English #EnglishLanguage #OscarWilde

Morning world. Let’s see, it’s Wednesday. Am I right? I might get the hang of these "week" things eventually.

Yesterday's #WOTD was SUPPLICATE, meaning to make a humble petition to or for something.

Today's word: PREPONDERATE.

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Morning world. It should be quiet today. Nothing in the calendar to get in the way of avoiding any work.

Yesterday's #WOTD was ANODYNE, which means pain relieving or soothing.

Today's word: SUPPLICATE.

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I just finished a new video in my series about the particles of phrasal verbs. It's called "Phrasal verbs with “off”: “Off” as “stopping”".

You can watch it on Youtube at: https://youtu.be/66w8d6v35Bc

#englishlanguage #phrasalverbs #languagelearning #esl

Morning world. Plumber day. Pensive.

Yesterday's #WOTD was BLAZON, which means to proclaim, or describe or paint a coat of arms.

Today's word: ANODYNE.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 1: I only found out about this late yesterday...

I'm a #CreativeWriting and #EnglishLanguage undergrad student at the #OpenUniversity.

I don't currently have any published works, at the moment, as I'm only really just starting out. I write in fantasy (both urban and high), and romance/erotica, with a dash of crime. I'm also planning on doing #NaNoWriMo this year.

What else would you like to know?

#introduction #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

Morning world. We might go out again today.

Yesterday's #WOTD was HETERODOX, which is defined by my dictionary as simply not orthodox. 🤔

Today's word: BLAZON.

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Morning world. We might go out today. I know. Scary.

Yesterday's #WOTD was APOTROPAIC, which means to bury a dead person in a way that wards off evil.

Today's word: HETERODOX.

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I can't remember where I grabbed this text from on the order of adjectives, but this feels like a good creative prompt for linguistic rule breakers and maybe even a way to have fun with the generative models.
But does "Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts" break the rule? If gobs are material rather than shape I guess not.
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Morning world. Hang on! Friday? So soon?

Yesterday's #WOTD was BLAIN, a blister, blotch or sore on the skin.

Today's word: APOTROPAIC.

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Morning world. It definitely feels like summer is drawing to a close.

Yesterday's #WOTD was IDIOM. A phrase established by usage and not immediately comprehensible from the words used.

Today's word: BLAIN.

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I have a new favorite word:
Turangawaewae: Originally and chiefly in Māori contexts: a place where one belongs or has established right of residence; a foothold, a home base. Also: a sense of identity and independence associated with this.

There’s no place like turangawaewae.

Prolly wouldn’t have worked in the movies…

#oed #englishlanguage

Morning world. I was right. I have been singularly unproductive so far this weekend.

Yesterday's #WOTD was LEE, which is simply the sheltered part or side.

Today's word: SCHIST

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Morning world. It’s a bank holiday weekend. That means I’ll get even less done than a normal two-day job.

Yesterday's #WOTD was MUSTH, a state of frenzied sexual excitement in the males of certain large mammals, especially elephants.

Today's word: LEE

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