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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

The constantly changing tapestry of human knowledge is one of the coolest things about us as a species.

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords @CBee

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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Thanks to the lovely book, Mythos, and to the even lovelier Stephen Fry for writing it, this is my #weirdwords pick for today! Link to the mythological origin/story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycaon_(king_of_Arcadia)
Enjoy! #weirdwordwednesday

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peanutnine I adore Stephen Fry! His narration for the audiobook is also amazing 20h

CBee @peanutnine oh yes! I‘m totally listening to the audiobook - it‘s excellent! 19h

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BookmarkTavern Thanks for sharing the story! 19h

Amiable Cool word! 17h

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 16h

CBee @BookmarkTavern absolutely - I like to add some context 😊 11h

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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

First snow of the season! And I‘m so glad today is the start of my weekend so I can stay inside, make chocolate chip cookies, and read my books. 💖

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords @CBee

AllDebooks What a fab word ❄️ 1w

ShelleyBooksie Cool! 1w

TheSpineView Great word!❤️ 1w

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CBee Lovely! We‘re having this sort of weather today ♥️ 1w

dabbe 🧡🍁🤎 1w

AnnCrystal 💕🍪🌧️📚💝. (edited) 1w

BethM Ohhh where are you? We‘re theoretically getting some next weekend! 1w

BookmarkTavern @BethM Utah! The Salt Lake Valley. Just enough to cover the ground. ❄️❄️ 1w

mcctrish Great word - we‘ve got rain in southern Ontario 7d

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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

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

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CBee Great one!! 1w

dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤩😂🤗 1w

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dabbe @CBee 🤩😂🤗 1w

BookmarkTavern Oh that‘s a fun one! 1w

dabbe @BookmarkTavern 🤩😂🤗 1w

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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 1w

Bookwomble Nope!🫸📝A lovely, mellifluous word, and ok in ancient grimoires, but otherwise, Nope! 😄 1w

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. 💖 1w

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TheSpineView I love this word! 1w

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! 🤩 1w

Amiable Just can‘t do it! 😬 Although your experience is absolutely lovely, @lil1inblue ! (edited) 1w

BookmarkTavern I love writing in my books! 😅😅😅 Seeing my different notes in books I reread regularly, like Dracula, are so much fun! 1w

CBee @Bookwomble you just used another wonderful word - mellifluous!! 1w

CBee @lil1inblue that‘s so lovely ♥️♥️ 1w

CBee @dabbe post-it notes are the bomb. Couldn‘t live without em! 1w

CBee @BookmarkTavern that‘s cool! I don‘t know why it‘s such a weird thing for me 🤷‍♀️ 1w

BethM It makes me@think of our missing friends @BookishMarginalia and @WanderingBookaneer ❤️ 1w

CBee @BethM oh! I hope they‘re both doing well - any idea what‘s going on with them? 7d

BethM @CBee I‘m not sure they haven‘t posted in years. I check their pages every once in awhile. 7d

CBee @BethM 😢🤷‍♀️ 6d

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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Here‘s a fun spooky word for Halloween tomorrow! Also, I have never felt less inspired to take a walk in the woods.

#WeirdWords #WeirdWordWednesday @CBee

TheSpineView Love this word! Perfect for Halloween 🎃 3w

CBee Oooo this is super spooky 🫢 3w

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Apologies for not posting on #weirdwordwednesday recently (life ugh). Today‘s word: synesthesia 😊Here‘s the Wiki - enjoy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
#weirdwords

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BookmarkTavern Hope life gets better! Also! My mom has a version of this. Letters and numbers are colors in her head! 3w

CatLass007 Thanks for sharing! This is a great word and I will share a screenshot of your graphic with my friend who has a masters in nursing and a masters in psychiatry. I‘m sure she will have much to say about the subject but since she‘s in the hospital I‘ll humor her by listening to her every thought on the subject. 3w

Amiable I've always liked the word synesthesia! Hugs for the life stuff. 3w

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dabbe Love this word and your picture! Thinking of you and hoping life slows down for you a bit asap. 🖤🧡🖤 3w

CBee @BookmarkTavern that‘s so interesting! Does it bother her at all? It seems rather lovely to me, especially related to music 😊 3w

CBee @CatLass007 that‘s what good friends do 😊 3w

CBee @Amiable I‘ll take the hugs, thank you 😊 3w

CBee @dabbe thank you, my friend 😊 3w

BookmarkTavern She had to read very quickly, otherwise she gets distracted by the colors. But she loves it. She actually found the list she wrote in elementary school a couple months ago. 😁 3w

CBee @BookmarkTavern oh wow, how cool! 3w

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