Latest posts tagged with #EnglishLanguage on Bluesky
In Episode 33 of our #podcast A Lesson before Writing, one of the issues we address is including words from other languages in an English-language text. #writingcommunity #englishlanguage #publishing #translation #books youtube.com/shorts/g4swm...
Archaic word of the day:
champaign - open level countryside; a battlefield (First recorded in 1350; Middle English champai from Latin campānia, meaning campaign)
#englishlanguage #history
Beyondosaurus goes beyond what any thesaurus can do. It's free and complete at beyondosaurus.com ( #writer, #author, #writing, #English, #language, #authoring, #research, #thesaurus, #dictionary, #EnglishLanguage, #definitions, #writersBlock)
Archaic word of the day:
certes - in truth; certainly (First recorded between 1200–50; from Old French phrase a certes meaning 'from sure (things)')
#englishlanguage #history
It takes over three hours just to pronounce the longest word in English: a protein name with 189,819 letters! #RandomFact #EnglishLanguage #LongestWord #ScienceTrivia #MindBlown
Which English language test does your UK visa require? B1 or B2 SELT exemptions and approved providers all explained in our complete guide #EnglishLanguage #UKVisa #SELT #ConnaughtLaw. buff.ly/PmBd8qb
Archaic word of the day:
carl - a man of low birth; a freeman of the lowest rank (From before 1000; Old Norse karl meaning man)
#englishlanguage #history
Archaic word of the day:
camelopard – an obsolete word for a giraffe (First recorded end of 14th century; Latin camēlopardālis, Greek kamēlopárdalis for giraffe)
#englishlanguage #history
Archaic word of the day:
callipygian - having well-shaped buttocks (First recorded in 1640; from Greek kallipýg(os) meaning with beautiful buttocks)
#englishlanguage #history
Yesterday wasn’t an historical day, but it is now. I suspect he meant historic.
#BBC #EnglishLanguage #ArtemisII #Historical #Historic
Come to a Q&A session at ALPS tomorrow to learn more about Seattle Colleges’ degree programs and certificates for international students!
#alpslanguageschool #studyinseattle #Seattle #Washington #studyenglishusa #studyenglishamerica #english #englishlanguage #englishlanguageschool #englishschool
Archaic word of the day:
caducity - the infirmity of old age; senility (First recorded in 1760; from French caducité)
#englishlanguage #history #c18th
Bet #MAGAts get confused about #transitive and #intransitive all the time. Gratefully, #AnuGarg does not.
Laughter from language.
wordsmith.org/words/pandic... (open link)
#Verbs #EnglishLanguage
Archaic word of the day:
cadet - a younger son; a gentleman, usually a younger son, who entered the army to prepare for a commission (first recorded in 1610)
#englishlanguage #history #17thc
Cream Warehouse Word card for PRAGMATIC with definition, etymology (from Greek pragma, “deed/action”), and example sentence. Clean portrait design with website at the bottom.
If you’re pragmatic, you deal with things in a practical, realistic way.
From Greek pragma — “deed” or “action.”
“She took a pragmatic approach to solving the problem.”
Clear thinking is good. Practical thinking gets results.
#WarehouseWord #WordOfTheDay #Vocabulary #EnglishLanguage
Archaic word of the day:
caboose - a kitchen on a ship’s deck; ship's galley (First recorded in 1740; early modern Dutch cabūse meaning ship's galley, storeroom)
#englishlanguage #history #maritimehistory
This one's in the book! (Unflubbify Your Writing: Bite-Sized Lessons to Improve Your Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar, available at Unflubbify dot com.)
#writing #advertising #englishlanguage #editing #proofreading
Hodge the cat lived with Samuel Johnson while he wrote the great English dictionary. Listen to the story of Dr Johnson and his “very fine cat” in our History of Cats podcast: tinyurl.com/3nbvs34b #history #cats #cat #caterday #literature #englishlanguage #pets #animals
Archaic word of the day:
buss - a kiss (First recorded in 1560; either from French baiser, German Kuss both words for a kiss, or the Scottish word bus, meaning cheek, lip, or mouth)
#englishlanguage #history
There are 2,241 synonyms for 'drunk.' See 200 so far in the intellectual playground at 500ways.com/words-for-dr.... Can you add more? ( #drunk, #drunken, #English, #language, #EnglishLanguage, #alcoholic, #alcoholism, #synonyms, #writing, #authoring)
Archaic word of the day:
burgess - a full citizen or free man of a town or borough (First recorded between 1175–1225; from Middle English burgeis; Old French burg city)
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Archaic word of the day:
bumper - a generous glass of an alcoholic drink; a cup or glass filled to the brim (First recorded in 1750)
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Archaic word of the day:
buck - a fashionable, spirited and daring young man (Middle English bukke, Old English bucca, meaning he-goat or bucc meaning male deer; cognate with Dutch bok and German Bock)
#englishlanguage #history
When did "... about it ..." become "... aboudit ..."?
[Also, when did the 'oo' sound become 'ee'?]
#EnglishLanguage
Welcome to a new week! Let's learn some new #English #vocabulary!
It's spring now and we're all starting to see flowers and trees BLOOM and BLOSSOM. Enjoy the warmer weather!
Come #LearnEnglish with BE FLUENT and you too can bloom and blossom... or at least your #EnglishLanguage skills can!
