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Category: THE JOY OF SIX

Round: Double Jeopardy!

$200

Clue: "Sing a song of" this & some reasonably priced blackbirds baked in a pie

#JeopardyQuestions #Trivia

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https://t.co/ZNvrQU98fZ

[World's Amazing Things @Hana_b30]

@Mr_Husky1 A plumb bob (or plummet) is a precision tool used to establish a perfectly vertical line, known as "plumb". It consists of a heavy, often pointed weight suspended from a string or cord.

[Vijay @v_kethana]

@shauseth

[Algoritmunte @algoritmunte]

Dié interessante artikel is oor 'n tipe "reduplikasie", die taalkundige term vir herhalings.

Afrikaans het besonders baie reduplikasies en die gebruik kom waarskynlik van Maleisies af, waar herhalings deel van die grammatika is en gebruik word om meervoud of nadruk aan te dui.

Dit wil-wil reën, so ons moet gou-gou klaarmaak anders gaan ons nou-nou nat raak!

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Both ‘okay’ and ‘ok’ are oll korrect.

In the 1820s & 1830’s, it was fashionable to deliberately misspell words.

For example, ‘all right’ became ‘oll wright.’

The trend also extended to abbreviations
All correct —> oll korrect—> o.k.

[iwsfutcmd will see you at VC5 @iwsfutcmd]

ironically, this is the most common word order around the world, by a smidgen

SOV (Subject-Object-Verb, "The farmer the duck killed", e.g. Hindi, Japanese, Turkish) is slightly more common (41%) than SVO ("The farmer killed the duck", e.g. Mandarin, English, Vietnamese) (35%)

VSO (Classical Arabic, Tagalog, Welsh) is uncommon but not rare (7%)

VOS (Malagasy, most Mayan languages inc. Q’eqchi’, Classical, and Yucatec, Ojibwe) is quite rare but still reasonably-widely spread geographically (2%)

OSV & OVS are *exceedingly* rare, only generally found deep in the Amazon and a few one-off languages in random places around the world

(note: this is in reference to *default* word order. in many languages, especially highly inflected ones, word order can be free but there's still a fallback, unmarked order)

[Clapham Kiddo 🇬🇧 @ClaphamKiddo]

This is one of the worst aspects of English

French has connaître / savoir
German has wissen / kennen
Latin has cognoscere / sapere

English needs the same

[Algoritmunte @algoritmunte]

In Afrikaans "witan" is "weet", "cunnan" is "ken".

[Learning From History @Memory_Hound]

Fun fact of the day: In Welsh we have "gwybod" for knowing a fact and "adnabod" for knowing someone or something.

The below post triggered some ideas for a Welsh adult learners class I'm leading today, so I'll probably use it as the basis of our conversation.

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

Old English used to have two words for to know: witan, which meant to know a fact (“I know that”), and cunnan, which meant being familiar with something (“I know this man”). Now this distinction has been replaced, but witan survives in the word “unwitting.”

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@TheFlatEartherr Compression artifact.

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@nivi Good info.

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@nanecruchi Interesting.

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@ecomchasedimond These are good.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How to digitalize a camera film

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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary