allisoncarter aka threads-allicart

Cobb County, Ga comms, Mid-century modern aged. Former Certified Professional Organizer, now just certifiable. She/her. [email protected]

[I Smoked The White House Ball Room @BlackKnight10k]

I'm putting together a compilation of the best Elon vs Trump tweets. We won't have another day this fun until he dies.

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[allisoncarter aka threads-allicart @allisoncarter]

Terry Cycling Win a Wardrobe Contest https://t.co/6tBmjMr9uy

[allisoncarter aka threads-allicart @allisoncarter]

Checking in after years away from X/twitter.... quickly exits.

[John 🇺🇸 ✡️ @noahsflood_]

@edencohentweets “We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - We have no place to go.”
~Golda Meir

[✨Dom The Designer ✨ @dapdesignz]

I asked my friends to dress like dorks and take corny JC Penny pictures with me for my birthday. They agreed. 🫱🏽‍🫲🏿

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

A thread of towns and cities that look spectacular from above 🧵

1. Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

What the hell is an ampersand and why does it look like that?!

The first thing you need to know is that "&" used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet...

But there are three parts to this story. And the first begins over two thousand years ago in Ancient Rome with a single word: et. It's the Latin for "and". At some point Roman scribes started combining the two letters of et into a single symbol, which was the ancestor of our modern &.

The earliest example of the "et" symbol is actually from graffiti in Pompeii. In any case, it did not disappear with the fall of the Roman Empire.

Latin survived as the language of the Catholic Church and of scholarship in Medieval Europe. Scribes during the Dark Ages continued to use the & symbol. It evolved down the centuries, in places losing any semblance of the letters e and t whatsoever.

The second part of the story is that during the 18th and 19th centuries, as education and the teaching of literacy spread, & was added to the end of the alphabet as a sort of 27th letter.

On a related note, although "et cetera" is now usually just abbreviated as etc., for a long time it was instead abbreviated as "&c". The & was for et and the c for cetera.

The third and final part of the story is about how the alphabet was taught to children — and how it was read out loud.

As this 1822 Glossary of Words and Phrases explains, it had been normal during the Renaissance, when speaking the alphabet, to add "per se" before any letter which could also be a word on its own — "per se" means "by itself" in Latin.

Take the letter A, which can also be a word of its own. When reading out the alphabet people would say "A, per se A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, per se I..." and so on. O was also considered a word of its own.

Which means, when people got to the end of the alphabet, with & being the 27th letter, they would say: "S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, and per se &."

When this old way of reading the alphabet was taught to children in the 18th century and they were reciting it aloud, they would garble "and per se " into what eventually became... ampersand.

A Dic­tion­ary of Slang and Col­lo­quial Eng­lish from 1905 relates some of the many other pronunciations school children apparently came up with:

"Am­persand. The sign &; am­persand. Vari­ants: Ann Passy Ann; an­pasty; an­dpassy; an­parse; aper­sie; per-se; am­passy; am-passy-ana; am­pene-and; am­pus-and; ampsyand; am­pazad; am­siam; am­pus-end; ap­perse-and; em­per­siand; am­perzed; and zumzy-zan."

Well, of all the many pronunciations that might have stuck, it was "ampersand" which came to be accepted and is now the official name for &... rather than zumzy-zan. So, from hurried Roman scribes to unruly school children, that's where "&" came from.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This WWF ad is genius.

[Amanda @Pandamoanimum]

Ryan Gosling as geese.

A thread.

[Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat]

Head lice wrote this tweet

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Why hasn’t anyone decided to merge retirement homes, children’s homes and animal shelters?

A large house where older people teach young children about life and take care of abandoned animals together.

In this arrangement, everyone would be a winner.

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

Ancient Jewish artifacts lent to the White House for an event go missing for years, and mysteriously end up at Mar-a-Lago where Trump has since not returned them despite massive diplomatic efforts.

https://t.co/d7FkzGcpRs

[allisoncarter aka threads-allicart @allisoncarter]

Find me at @allicart over there… if ya know what I mean. Bye Felicia.

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

this is so cool

[krys malcolm belc @krysmalcolmbelc]

two of my children are absolutely screaming at each other over whether the eponymous cars from Cars (2006) have car insurance or life insurance.

[lumi 💌 @lumisletters]

I was curious about the grimace milkshake but i think ill pass now .

[Stacy E @gtstac]

Tonight a group of Nazis showed up at an East Cobb synagogue a few minutes from my house. Our community is angry and shaken up. A counter protest across the street popped up & grew to about 50 people, about triple the size of the Nazi group.

@ADL #gapol @AJCGlobal @ajc @wsbtv

[Jesse Sheidlower @jessesheidlower]

I appreciate that there are reasonable arguments against the Oxford comma (I'm Team Pro-OC), but can anyone justify this abysmal example? Genuine record-scratch level of confusing.

From https://t.co/0PNMtA31XR

[allisoncarter aka threads-allicart @allisoncarter]

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