December 2008
120 posts
annytime:
The brilliant, fair and beautiful Mrs Scarlett Johansson:
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Great!
reblogging so I can find this easily when I want to watch it for ooh possibly hours on end
Pay It Backwards: An Act Of Coffee Kindness →
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Archaeology Magazine's Top 10 Discoveries of 2008 →
brilliantology:
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wordjournal:
verb • to stick a piece of raw ginger (or a live eel) into a horse’s rectum so as to make it seem more lively when it is being sold.
Great new tumblelog, but I can’t help but think that at least one of the contributors will at some point stick one made-up one in, and then THEY’D BE LAUGHING AT US ALL. I actually do hope this one isn’t real!
Words That Don't Exist in the English Language
miss-en-scene:
electricalgloom:
sugarcreamcandy:
bebelestrange:
catchakat:
lovepuppy:
Gheegle: (Filipino) The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.
Cualacino: (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass.
Sgriob: (Gaelic) The itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whisky
L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after...
Word Journal →
yooniverse:
Instant follow!
nostrich:
Everyone loves words. Especially Linguistics students. So when my tutor (Lynne Murphy, by the way, for fellow Linguists) suggested a word journal as an extra credit project, I jumped all over it. This isn’t it, but it’s borne from the same idea, except with more collaboration. (Name is subject to change on the grounds that it’s boring, apparently. Jeez.)
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