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[Jesica @Norambuena]

@dcaleb @dcaleb fab, well done! Hope all good with you. 🤗

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘latibulate’ (17th century): to hide in a corner in an attempt to escape reality.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘pinchfart’ (16th century): a miser; one who withholds money to the detriment of others.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is 'tmesis', from the Greek for 'cutting' : the separation of parts of a word by an intervening word, as in 'un-bloody-believable', etc.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

I can't think of many things more beautiful than this etymology, for the pupil of the eye - possibly my favourite amongst all those I included in 'Word Perfect'.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Musing of the day: 'exorbitant' is one of those words that wear their hearts on their sleeves (secretaries kept secrets; to breakfast is to break your overnight fast, a cupboard was a board/table for cups). It's from the Latin for 'out of orbit', so off course/unreasonable.

[Nourished Life @Nourishedlifeuk]

Make room for #mushrooms 😍they are in season! PLUS they are⬆️in selenium which contributes to the maintenance of normal hair and skin AND the normal function of our immune systems🙌Just 14 button 🍄or 3/4 heaped tbsps of sliced 🍄 count as 1 of your #5aday #SeasonalVeg

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

A reminder that 'to steal someone's thunder' is from a kerfuffle at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1706. The playwright John Dennis witnessed the theft by another production of his own 'thunder-making' machine. 'Damn them, they will not let *my* play run, but they steal my thunder!'

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

'Book' is a descendant of the 'beech'; 'paper' came from 'papyrus'; 'library' is from the Latin 'liber', 'bark', and 'true' is a sibling of 'tree', with the idea of something solid, firm, and steadfast.

I love the way language has wrapped itself around trees.

[Melissa Hogenboom BBC @MelissaH_BBC]

I love the obscurities of language - this is well worth a watch https://t.co/1w9sxnfZkB for @BBC_Reel featuring @susie_dent and produced by the talented Howie.

[Sue Thompson @SueThompson41]

Delighted to be supporting this great project with @chefsimonboyle

[Jeremy Farrar @JeremyFarrar]

This is great advice from the Canadian Govt. I hope we living this @wellcometrust

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

While we’re debating the true meaning of ‘alert’, I can at least chuck in that it comes from the military Italian ‘all’ erta!’, ‘to the watchtower!’: a call to be on the lookout for a visible enemy. (Similarly, the word ‘alarm’ began as ‘all’ arme!’, ‘to arms!’).

[Wellcome Collection @ExploreWellcome]

Happy #WorldPenguinDay! 🐧
These beautiful Magellanic penguins are named after Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, however it was the Italian scholar and explorer Antonio Pigafetta, who traveled with Magellan in 1520, that is credited with sighting the species in Patagonia.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Wordy fact of the day for kids: the number ‘two’ may have a silent ‘w’, but it’s part of the same ancient family that gave us ‘twin’, ‘twice’, ‘between’, ‘tweezers’, ‘twenty’, and ‘twelve’: all of them have something to do with that number 2. #homeschooling

[Julia Bradbury I HAVEN'T BOUGHT BLUE TICK💙 @JuliaBradbury]

If you're asked to light a sky latern in support of the wonderful @NHS & key workers pls say no-show your support another way. Sky lanterns are a fire hazard,a danger to wildlife & pollute the natural world #banfirelanterns #ClapForCarers #stopfires @PhilGarrigan @NFCC_FireChiefs

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

@RJHarle Here you go Rich: from this week’s Radio Times.

[Claire Eldaadaa @claire_ctu]

Very well deserved @JessLatchford we love @wasteknotuk 🌽

[Refettorio Felix @RefettorioFelix]

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