John Walton
Editor in chief of @theupfront.media: in-depth independent aviation journalism for the digital age. Subscribe today!
Journo, Japan travel expert, bon vivant, lover of gardens, fan of 22°C, crocheter, Champagne enthusiast.
Big 🏳️🌈 w/the 🏳️⚧️, 🇫🇷 in 🇪🇺, he/him.
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- I'll happily take if off their hands and cheer it up.
- Thought I'd had a fun idea - to turn the whole "This is Not a Place of Honour" nuclear semiotics thing into a cute folksy cross-stitch Home Sweet Home sampler. But this being the internet it's already been done. Multiple times. Hmph.
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- Good morning from Magpie HQ. Today I thought I'd do a thread on backronyms. These are words which have evolved as words in their own right, but which humans have come up with (often very pleasing, sometimes trite) things that they supposedly stand for. Strong language ahead in a couple of examples.
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View full threadBless this incredible birdnerd thread and all who pedant in her 💯
- See, the problem is that now I have had 1 (one) encouragement to nerd about bird words specifically, that's now what I'm most likely to post.
- Goodness, thanks for all the love and follows as a result of my little thread about Lichfield. I'll try and do them regularly - they won't always be about place names, it's likely just to be anything that steals my attention momentarily. 😊
- This weekend we found ourselves in Lichfield, which has always struck me as an odd name for a place.
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View full threadLich meaning corpse, as often as not reanimated, is found through fantasy and folklore, but alas Lichfield is not named for a mass grave, nor is it full of shambling corpses (though, a bit, for all that).
- Lich survives in English in the word lychgate which refers to a covered gateway to a cemetery or churchyard, where coffins typically rested before interral.
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