Litsy

Song and Garden Birds of North America | National Geographic Society (U.S.), Alexander Wetmore

Today‘s #weirdword is for the birds. Gorget refers to a piece of armor protecting the throat, but it is also a common word to describe the patch of feathers on hummingbird necks. Having lived on the east coast of the US all my life, I have never seen any hummingbirds apart from the Ruby-throated, but I discovered the Cornell Lab Bird Cams the other day and now I‘m obsessed with watching them zoom and hover in all their iridescent splendor. ⬇️

psalva https://youtu.be/VC2oVNMn-jA?si=E_wUMbzVgg_oInwk 10mo

psalva @CBee #weirdwordWednesdays 10mo

CBee Eek! My absolute favorite bird and I LOVE the webcams Cornell does ♥️♥️♥️ 10mo

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Read4life

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

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#BookSpinBingo #NoPlaceLikeHolmes #readyourebooks #readyourTBR #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024

Cuilin, DieAReader, Andrew65, TheSpineView, CBee, dabbe, TheAromaofBooks

DieAReader 🥳❤️‍🔥🤓 10mo

TheSpineView 🤩📖📚 10mo

Cuilin ⭐️🫶🎉 10mo

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dabbe WOW! One l'il SH story fits all of those hashtags. BRILLIANT! 🤩🤩🤩 10mo

CBee Isn‘t a carbuncle another name for a boil? 😂😳🤷‍♀️ 10mo

Read4life @CBee Yup! 😆 10mo

CBee @Read4life hmm. Maybe my next #weirdword 😂🤓🤪 10mo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 10mo

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dabbe

Valentines | Ted Kooser

#WondrousWednesday
@Eggs 😘

1. Yep ... quite a few, both ecards and snail mail cards.
2. I believe in all kinds of possible connections, and not necessarily just the passionate-love kind.
3. My #weirdword of the day: BED ROTTING with Matt + the pups. 😍

Anyone want to play? All are welcome! ❤️💜🩷

Eggs Bed rotting 🤣😂 Thx for playing ♥️ 12mo

dabbe @Eggs 🤩😍😂 12mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I love it! Bed rotting! 😂 12mo

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dabbe @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🤩😍😂 12mo

Mimi28 Thank you for the Valentine‘s Day e-card and physical card! You are so sweet 🩷🩷🫶🏽🫶🏽 12mo

dabbe @Mimi28 💟💟💟 12mo

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ElizaMarie

Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy | James Renner

Not necessarily “weird“ words for this #WeirdWord post, but words I didn't know. Not sure if there was a hashtag for “learned words“ while reading.... Also “corpse servant!“ I love it!

@CBee

Charityann Oooh, love this! So fun.😄 13mo

CBee Those are definitely interesting, so they fit as “weird” to me 😄 I‘ll have to ask hubby if he knows the German one. Thanks for sharing!! 13mo

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CBee

Untitled | Unknown

Friends, not a great day over here. My sweetest girl, Izzy, isn‘t well (she just turned 16), and I‘m at a doctor‘s appt right now for a bulging disc. Life is just lifing today 🙁😭 Please share your #weirdword if you‘re so inclined ❤️

Megabooks, Daisey, TheBookHippie, Amiable, vivastory, CatLass007, mandarchy, dabbe, IndoorDame, peanutnine, psalva

mandarchy Hang in there! 1y

Sapphire Hugs to Izzy and to you. I know she is glad you are with her on the bad days too. 1y

vivastory 😩 💔 You'll be in my thoughts, friend. 1y

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Deifio Oh no! Hope everything turns out well! ❤️‍🩹 1y

IndoorDame 🤗❤️‍🩹 hugs to you and Izzy 1y

Jas16 Sending ❤️ 1y

JudeCC 😢🙏🙏🙏💔 1y

Tamra 🙁 Wishing you both comfort. 1y

batsy Lots of love and strength. Izzy ❤️ 1y

Megabooks Oh Cydney, how awful! It‘s hard when our furry friends age. Sending love and support to you both!! 💜💜💜🫶🏻 1y

willaful Poor sweet her and poor sweet you! Sending hugs and pets. 1y

peanutnine So sorry, hope you and your furry friend find strength and comfort in each other 💖 1y

Amiable Awww, sending good thoughts and vibes to you and Izzy. It's certainly a day. Ugh. Hope tomorrow is better for both of you. ❤ 💙 1y

Jari-chan Sending strength and cuddles 🕯️❤️ 1y

TheBookHippie Awe precious babe. 1y

Deblovestoread Hate when life gets in the way of living. Sendings hugs to you both. ❤️ 1y

ElizaMarie Hugs and kisses to Izzy she is beautiful! I hope she recovers soon. 1y

psalva Sorry to hear this! Sending good thoughts to y‘all. 💜 1y

Librarybelle Sending positive thoughts 1y

CatLass007 Hello sweet Izzy, it‘s good that you and your Mama are there to support each other. Sending love, prayers, and good thoughts your way. 1y

Bookwomble I hope Izzy's soon feeling comfortable again 💖🐕💖 1y

SamAnne So hard to watch our canine family members grow old….. 1y

TrishB Hope you‘re both feeling a bit better soon. 1y

Ruthiella Sorry to hear that. It‘s so hard on the humans when our animal friends suffer. ❤️🐶 1y

dabbe Oh, I am so sorry to read this. My heart goes out to you and your precious Izzy. Holding you both in my thoughts and hoping Izzy feels better soon. 💙💙💙 1y

Gissy 🐶❤️ 1y

Booksblanketsandahotbeverage Sweet Izzy ❤️🐶 1y

quietjenn I'm so sorry. I know how rough that is. 💚 1y

BookmarkTavern Sending all the good vibes I can! 💖💖💖 1y

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

I have a monstera just like this (I‘ve become a total plant lady this year) and it‘s so gorgeous! Here‘s a cool article about fenestration - my #weirdword of the day 🪴🪴🪴
https://costafarms.com/blogs/get-growing/splits-and-holes-plants-with-fenestrati...

Megabooks, Daisey, TheBookHippie, Amiable, vivastory, CatLass007, mandarchy, dabbe, IndoorDame, peanutnine, psalva

dabbe 🧡🖤💜 1y

CatLass007 Please, please add me to this group. I love learning new words. I started out the year by a friend telling me that I needed to deaccession my library. I‘d never heard the word before and neither did a couple of my friends who are constant readers. But I know what it means now and I‘m putting it into action! 1y

CBee @CatLass007 I absolutely will! 1y

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CatLass007 Thank you!❣️❣️❣️ 1y

Megabooks Fenestration is also used a lot in medicine. Creating a hole in a body part (like a tracheotomy) or I remember the hole in a surgery drape being called that as well as small pathologic holes that occur naturally in organs like the kidney. I think it‘s an interesting word! Thanks for sharing. 💜 1y

CBee @Megabooks that makes sense! I also saw that it can be applied to architecture, specifically windows and doors 😊 (edited) 1y

mandarchy The French word for window is fenêtre. The accent over the e represents the absence of an s. So whenever you see a French word with an ê, add an s to see if it makes more sense. 1y

Amiable @mandarchy @CBee The word for window in German is “fenster.” Like the French word, derived from the Latin “fenestra,” which also meant window. These are the types of situations when those 6 years of Latin classes I took in high school and college come in handy. 😀 (Literally. The only times. Because it‘s not useful for anything else. 😄) 1y

CBee @Amiable I took Latin in high school too, I feel you 😂😂 1y

CBee @mandarchy I‘m definitely going to try that! 1y

mandarchy @Amiable I figured it was Latin, but I didn't want to say so because I only took one quarter of Latin in 6th grade. The only thing that interested me was how to read etymologies in the dictionary. And it probably helped me with Spanish and French. But now I'm wondering where the English got window? 1y

mandarchy Oh, and you will all get a chuckle, my phone just auto corrected Latin with pain 1y

Amiable @mandarchy Ha ha! Spending an entire semester in college translating the poems of Catullus definitely = pain. I 💗 your autocorrect. 😃 1y

CBee @mandarchy that tracks 😂😂 1y

CBee @Amiable Latin was rough but I had the funniest teacher - she came out of retirement to teach Latin again. Safety pins holding her glasses together on the sides, slip always showing, and she‘d randomly recite Jabberwocky in its entirety 😁 She was a hoot! 1y

Amiable @CBee Did you take it because you wanted to avoid the conversational classes? I started German in middle school but bailed when I couldn't understand a word the teacher ever said. That's when I had the “bright“ idea to switch to Latin in HS because nobody speaks that except for old priests. And I'm not Catholic. So I figured I was safe. Ha! 😄 It bit me in the butt when I started college and found out I had to take 4 semesters of a language. 😖 1y

Amiable @mandarchy @cbeeYes, Latin also helped with the etymology class I took in high school as well! So that's two things. :) 1y

TieDyeDude @wildalaskabibliophile Just bought a plant like this! 1y

CBee @Amiable I honestly can‘t remember, but it seemed interesting at the time and my mom encouraged me (she was an English teacher) to take it 💚 1y

CBee @TieDyeDude it‘s a fantastic plant! One of my favorites 🪴 1y

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Daisey

Dracula Daily: Reading Bram Stoker's Classic with Commentary by the Internet | Matthew Kirkland

I marked these words a few days ago in my reading and then completely forgot to share them yesterday. There are quite a few interesting words in Dracula and I kind of love how the look up function works in SubStack.

#WeirdWords #WeirdWordWednesday #DraculaDaily

Daisey @The_Book_Ninja @Meshell1313 @tpixie @JazzFeathers @graciouswarriorprincess @dabbe @eeclayton @Chrys @Vansa @CBee

*If at any time you want to be added or removed from the tag list, please let me know. 1y

CBee I was so distracted yesterday and didn‘t post a #weirdword 🤦‍♀️ Thank you for sharing! I‘ll catch up next week 🤪 1y

Meshell1313 Ooh so interesting!!! 1y

tpixie @Daisey Very interesting! I‘ve been listening and either glazed over those words, or the audio is different. That‘s good to know about Substack look up! That‘s what I love about evils- a dictionary right at hand! 1y

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

I read it, but I haven‘t even attempted to pronounce it yet 😂😂 Needless to say, the #weirdwords crew doesn‘t suffer from this phobia 😁😂

Megabooks, TheBookHippie, Amiable, vivastory, mandarchy, dabbe, IndoorDame, peanutnine, psalva

IndoorDame 😂😂😂👏👏👏 1y

Amiable I may have Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia about trying to pronounce Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, though. 😃 1y

CBee @Amiable okay, you win for typing that out TWICE 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😂😂😂 1y

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peanutnine Omg 😳 whoever came up with this word is mean 😂 1y

CBee @peanutnine somebody had wayyyy too much time on their hands. And I keep trying to figure out where the hippo part comes from 🤔 1y

dabbe The 2nd longest word in the English language! Good luck trying to say it! 🤣🤣🤣https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_OLv05g3Ak

You win best #weirdword today, @CBee! 🤩🤩🤩 1y

Amiable @dabbe OK, so I totally had to go look up the longest word in the English language: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis = “a type of lung disease caused by the inhalation of ash and sand dust, mostly associated with volcanic ash.“ 😄 1y

dabbe @Amiable You. Crack. Me. Up. Plus, another #weirdword for today! 🤩🤣🤗 1y

CBee @Amiable I saw that too, but hippo…..etc etc was so appropriate for #weirdwords 😊😊 1y

CBee @dabbe I tried. I really did 😂😂 My husband was like, does it have something to do with hippos? 🦛 😂 1y

dabbe @CBee Maybe hippos are afraid of long words. 🤩🤣🤗 1y

Amiable @CBee It's a totally appropriate word! I just took it as a challenge when @dabbe said it was the SECOND longest word. You can't drop a factoid like that in my vicinity and not expect follow through to the logical next question -- so what 's the FIRST longest? I used to be a newspaper reporter. I can't help myself. 😄 1y

CBee @Amiable I totally get that 😊😂 1y

CBee @dabbe 😂😂😂 1y

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