Canadian word nerds, rejoice. Two decades after the last Canada-specific dictionary was published, a new one is on its way. Editors Canada has taken on the project, with John Chew, head of the North American Scrabble Players Association, as editor-in-chief. Quill and Quire reports that the letter Q, a small portion of which is online now, could be released this summer. While lexicographers usually start with M, Chew plumped for Q because it includes Indigenous and Inuktitut words and many medical and scientific words. Here's more.
#Fedihelp#Followerpower An english-speaking friend had a surgery and now faces months of recovery. She asked me to bring „any funny books“ in english - and I‘m totally clueless! Have you any suggestions? #book#books#reading#english
24 Apr 1574: John Foxe martyrologist & key shaper of #English#Protestant identity carries out an exorcism on the lawyer Robert Briggs in #London#otd (BM)
24 Apr 1626: George Sandys is granted a patent for 21 years exclusive rights to print & sell his #English translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses #otd#poetry
@mdsumner@ojala There they’re struggling with their different spellings or different meanings of words that sound the same. Time to add tyme to the list, no? Bears bear witness to the bare facts of the matter such as when they had a lone loan. They sought to sort it out, so Peter could peter out. Meanwhile, the fair’s fair fare for the tasty fare was fairly good for the fair maiden. #English#hashtaggames
23 Apr 1607: Pudentiana Deacon takes the habit as a #Benedictine nun #otd at the #English Convent Brussels. Translator of Francis de Sales' wildly popular work, among other things #nuntastic (eebo)
23 Apr 1576: William Gerard becomes Lord Chancellor of #Ireland#otd He was granted the deanery of St Patrick's cathedral #Dublin to supplement his income. Gerard pushed for the extension of #English law to the whole island of Ireland (NLI)
23 Apr 1579: 'Liber Ruber' of the #English College #Rome - which is still kept - opens #otd with St Ralph Sherwin writing down his determination to go to #England. Executed 1 Dec 1581, Sherwin kissed the executioner's hands which were still wet with the blood of Edmund Campion
And the media are making a big deal out of St George's Day - which usually, as far as I know, passes almost entirely without notice - and all because Flagshagger Keith felt the need to bore us with his EngNat rhetoric at the weekend.
Prick. #UKPolitics#GweriniaethCymru#ScottishIndependence#Think32#DisunitedKingdom
If anyone makes a fuss about it, tell them it is the day celebrating the National Saint of the country of Georgia. Which, technically, he also is. The #Flagshaggers and #EnglishNationalists hate that. Something that is a key difference between #English Nats and Scottish and Welsh nationalists in the UK. The former just can't share.
I speak a few languages (and none of them well). Maybe one day, I don't know how soon, I'll speak #English well (verbally). I was extremely disappointed because I was invited by the #FreeBSD Foundation for an informal interview, and... well, my English let me down again... it's just so sad. :revblobfoxdead:
22 Apr 1616: d. Miguel de Cervantes in #Madrid#otd His Don Quixote is one of the most translated books ever. The first translation into any other language was to #English by Thomas Shelton of #Dublin
I've never shopped at AliExpress. I have no account there. The region is set to US, but as soon as I searched for something, the site switched to German. 🥴
The U.S. government should not be in the business of shutting down social media firms on the basis of China-hate. TikTok is no worse (and in fact seems to be far better) than various social media apps from U.S.-based firms. There's a lot of be upset with China about, but TikTok (and drone leader DJI, which also has bipartisan China-hate trying to ban it) are not where Congress should be getting involved. If Congress passes such bans and Biden signs them, there will be major court battles and courts should strike the bans down.
@benroyce@CaptMorgan@lauren@freemo Just curious! I want to be fair to you. Your reading comprehension is REALLY poor, but if #English isn’t your first language, it’d be uncool for me to criticize you for that.
@benroyce@CaptMorgan@lauren@freemo Haha well, I’m glad you had fun with the thread at least! Hope you have a good rest of your day and you spend it learning the #English language lol