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ChrisBohjalian

Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English | Ben Yagoda

Bedtime reading: a gift from friends so, for a change, I actually know what I‘m talking about.

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1w

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dabbe

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#weirdwords
#weirdwordwednesday
@CBee

Came across this in A FATAL GRACE by Louise Penny. Definitely something we don't experience in Phoenix, AZ!

CBee Perfect! I‘m actually on #6 in the series! Still cold and icy 😂 2mo

dabbe @CBee 🤩😂🤗 2mo

CSeydel I once used this word in a history paper in high school. My teacher took points off because he didn‘t know what it meant. One of the worst teachers I have ever had (and not just because of that). 2mo

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dabbe @CSeydel Translation from teacher: How dare you profess to know a word that I don't? You must have made it up or looked it up in the dictionary! #oy 🙄😂🤗 2mo

Suet624 This qualifies as a descriptor of my current local weather. 2mo

dabbe @Suet624 🩵❄️🩵 2mo

CBee @CSeydel omg that‘s terrible! Shame on him 😡 2mo

CSeydel @CBee He was truly horrible 2mo

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Maggie4483

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | Anne Collins, Alexander McCall Smith

Girl, same.

(Hugs to anyone else who‘s missing someone this Christmas ❤️❤️❤️)

Ruthiella ❤️❤️❤️ 2mo

Librarybelle ❤️❤️❤️ 2mo

CarolynM ❤️❤️❤️ 2mo

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dabbe

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords
@CBee

A little less morose than last week's word. Things must be looking up.

AmyG @dabbe Did you get Matt‘s book? 3mo

CBee Ooooo a good one. I thought about posting “fecund” today but for some reason thought I‘d already done that one at some point. Reading “Mythos” and Demeter is fecund in that she keeps things growing and fertile ♥️ 3mo

dabbe @CBee Another excellent one. Fun to pronounce and mispronounce, too! 😂 3mo

CBee @dabbe 😂😂😂 2mo

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

I love color words! The bird is a flavescent bulbul, and the fish is a flavescent peacock (a type of cichlid). Apologies for not posting the past two weeks, friends! #weirdwords #weirdwordwednesday

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CatLass007 If I had seen this word before today, I would have thought it was a word that was a description of the way something tastes.😂 But now I know better. Good word!! Thanks for sharing. 3mo

TheSpineView Good one! ❤️ 3mo

TheBookHippie I love birds 🙂🙃 what a fun word! 3mo

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dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 3mo

BookmarkTavern Yellow is my favorite color! 💛💛 3mo

psalva This is a fun one! I haven‘t posted in forever because ever since an iPhone update my phone app is not functioning the same, but hopefully i can resolve it if i get some free time to look into it soon. Thanks for the continued tags! I always look forward to #weirdwords! 3mo

CBee @CatLass007 ha! I definitely didn‘t expect it to mean a shade of yellow 😂 3mo

CBee @TheBookHippie isn‘t this little guy cute? So yellow and poofy. 3mo

CBee @BookmarkTavern it‘s such a happy color 💛 3mo

CBee @psalva oh no! I‘m sorry to hear that. Have you reached out to Litsy help? 3mo

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dabbe

Kiss in Space: Poems | Mary Jo Salter

#poetrymatters
#carole
@TheSpineView

#wintergames2024
#holidaybookdragons
@StayCurious @LiseWorks
+20 points (10 for photo, 5 for post, 5 for also being a fab book!)

Time to rewatch THE THIN MAN. 🖤

curiouserandcurioser @dabbe love The Thin Man movies!💜 3mo

dabbe @curiouserandcurioser #metoo They are so adorable together! 🤩 3mo

TheSpineView Great choice!😍😍😍 3mo

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willaful Her husband sounds like my kinda guy. 3mo

curiouserandcurioser @dabbe they are! Some of my very favorite movies;)💜 3mo

dabbe @willaful Especially on New Year's Eve! 🍸 3mo

dabbe @TheSpineView 💙❄️💙 3mo

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dabbe

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#weirdwordwednesday
#weirdwords
@CBee

A fun one to say, too: [per-uh-pi-TEE-uh]

TheBookHippie 😅👀♥️ 4mo

CBee Great one!! 4mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤩😂🤗 4mo

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dabbe @CBee 🤩😂🤗 4mo

BookmarkTavern Oh that‘s a fun one! 4mo

dabbe @BookmarkTavern 🤩😂🤗 4mo

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

I was fine putting marginalia in my textbooks, and maybe literature I was reading for school, but now? It‘s hard for me to write in books (maybe that‘s why #LPMBC wasn‘t my cup of tea 😂)! Anyway, such a pretty word, hope you all enjoy! Here‘s an article about weird medieval marginalia: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-marginalia-books-doodles

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mcctrish It‘s crazy how many years passed before I got over myself and wrote marginalia in my cookbooks 4mo

Bookwomble Nope!🫸📝A lovely, mellifluous word, and ok in ancient grimoires, but otherwise, Nope! 😄 4mo

lil1inblue I used to be against marginalia, but then I inherited some of my grandfather's books. I didn't get to know him well because he was sick after I was born and died when I was young. But I did get to know him through his marginalia. So now I write in all the books. 💖 4mo

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TheSpineView I love this word! 4mo

dabbe When we used to have real textbooks in high school, I taught the kids to mark them up with post-it-notes because they couldn't write in them. The power of a post-it-note! 🤩 4mo

Amiable Just can‘t do it! 😬 Although your experience is absolutely lovely, @lil1inblue ! (edited) 4mo

BookmarkTavern I love writing in my books! 😅😅😅 Seeing my different notes in books I reread regularly, like Dracula, are so much fun! 4mo

CBee @Bookwomble you just used another wonderful word - mellifluous!! 4mo

CBee @lil1inblue that‘s so lovely ♥️♥️ 4mo

CBee @dabbe post-it notes are the bomb. Couldn‘t live without em! 4mo

CBee @BookmarkTavern that‘s cool! I don‘t know why it‘s such a weird thing for me 🤷‍♀️ 4mo

BethM It makes me@think of our missing friends @BookishMarginalia and @WanderingBookaneer ❤️ 4mo

CBee @BethM oh! I hope they‘re both doing well - any idea what‘s going on with them? 4mo

BethM @CBee I‘m not sure they haven‘t posted in years. I check their pages every once in awhile. 4mo

CBee @BethM 😢🤷‍♀️ 4mo

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lil1inblue

Kiss in Space: Poems | Mary Jo Salter

#poetrymatters #video

TheSpineView

TheSpineView ❤️❤️❤️ 4mo

dabbe 🖤🧡🖤 4mo

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