WORD NERDS UNITE!

[eddiemomson]

I’m actually never going to get over Logan Echols’ death

[noschitts]

[bismuth-209]

Your body is a temple. A temple with blood rituals and pagan tributes. A lost temple. A temple that needs more calcium. You should maybe try vitamin supplements

~Welcome to Night Vale

[spiderrrling]

I am a(n):

⚪ Male

⚪ Female

🔘 Writer

Looking for

⚪ Boyfriend

⚪ Girlfriend

🔘 An incredibly specific word that I can't remember

[what-even-is-thiss]

*wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat*

WAIT IT’S CALLED A THROW PILLOW

[holorifle]

here is a super helpful website for this kinda thing!

the first result isn’t always the one you’re looking for but when you press enter it’ll give you a ton of words related to your query that’ll probably have what you’re wanting, or something better

here’s some examples:

[anchored-in-high-tide]

Reblog to save a writer’s sanity (the last bit that’s left)

[beautifulbookland]

Walking out the bookshop like

[under-the-arch]

[art-woonz]

Art By IG: @alysontabbitha

Instagram: @artwoonz

[waywardcryptid]

[writeouswriter]

A writer’s brain agonizing over whether an idea has been done before:

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

that is such a fucking mood

[haliahli]

Love this. #words #OE #English #linguistics

[eda0bdedb8ba]

No, you don’t understand. This is an actual thing though.

[languagevillage-blog]

“deerlore” for zoology and “toothhealer” for “dentist"…

[nekobakaz]

**rubs hands** WORLD BUILDING RESOURCES!!!!

[meridok-old]

ironish brimstoneling

[pinejaysong]

my brain hurts trying to read that wikipedia article but also everything is hilarious.

[scribefindegil]

#this sounds like something scribefindegil would make up to taunt me

Will i hate to break it to you but i’ve been planning to have my Halflings speak in this dialect for literal months

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Many of those Old English alternatives look suspiciously like German compound words.

flyhaven | Flughafen farspeak | Fernsprecher farsee | Fernseher

Why, dear English, did you give up the great tool of forming compound words?

[spanishskulduggery]

Because of the influence of French on English most likely.

In the 11th century, William the Conqueror came to rule England though he was a Norman (French). Both during and after his reign, English words that had Anglo-Saxon or Germanic roots were sometimes replaced or supplanted by words with Latin, Norman, or Anglo-Norman roots instead.

Since then, English is a bit of a jumble. Since Latin was often used by the nobility and the clergy, you frequently have cases where English has multiple words for the same thing but organized in a hierarchy of formality.

Words like “house” which are Germanic in origin are commonplace and informal and part of everyday use. Words like “domicile” are Latin in origin and are understood to be more formal and are words we know but would rarely use unless we were trying to be fancy.

[florencesques-deactivated201908]

I miss when ‘getting sea air’ was a viable prescription for most maladies

[theladyspanishes]

yeah how come my doctor hasn’t instructed me to become a pirate for my own health yet? what’s up with that

[thoodleoo]

okay but what if there was a drunk history but for literature where you’d go on, get drunk, and try to describe the plot of your favorite lit

tag your drink and book of choice

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

Vodka, straight, and that hell book Wuthering Heights

[apprenticeofdoyle]

cider spiked with cinnamon whiskey and Dracula

[zombiefaepunk]

Red wine and Beowulf

[theguildedtypewriter]

Either Apothic Inferno or Guinness and Frankenstein.

[quillwritten]

I don’t drink so I guess sleep deprivation and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

[paperblairplanes]

Listen I'm glad Mare got her happily ever after but like........by the end of the series I was just so tired with both the Calore boys......Mare sweetheart take this spa giftcard....take Farley with you....please just take a nap....forget Cal for a bit, just enjoy a nice massage....

[nl93]

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero 🌵📚🌱

[everythingfox]

Wolf pup howling for the first time

[lissadiane]

I’ve reblogges this before but words cannot express how my face lit up when it came across my dash again so here you go, you’re welcome. This is my favourite thing.

[miranda-otto]

Orla saw it too. Orla is easily led. Thank you, aunt Mary.

[tisawish]

What if we just remove men from politics? 🤔

[taramaclaywasaterf]

Men don’t realize what stuff like this does to young girls growing up. The effect it has on us, never seeing ourselves in power. Just like young children of color never see themselves in power. It’s just picture after picture of white men in black suits, over and over and over again. They’ll never understand what that’s like.

[ianvs-deactivated20241214]

A related problem is what this does to young boys—and especially young, white boys. This creates the idea that white men are the default members of society, and this is partly why, by the time they’re 18, so many white men are completely incapable of empathising with marginalised peoples.

[lifequotesandbooksuniverse]

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”

— Neil Gaiman