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A #rebus is a #wordplay #puzzle combining images and letters to represent a word or phrase. Words are represented by combinations of pictures and letters; for instance, "apex" might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X. Moving left to right "say" the images in English and mix in the letters to complete the answer.

Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once. Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search! Starting with one of the letters in a gray square, find the longest word. Next letter horizontal or vertical from the first. No diagonals. No square may be used again. Minimum 7 letters

#SundaySillies Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans! Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame. Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can. Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess. Hint: unplanned Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape

this bbc headline (below) made me roll my eyes. i feel like the writer got into trouble at ‘linking’ and added ‘both’ to try to escape but it just caused a different problem. i spent a short while wondering how a bridge could link just one of them. “first road bridge opens linking north korea and russia” isn’t perfect but is better imho. we don’t need the active voice, since the agency of the countries is implicit. #wordplay North Korea and Russia open first road bridge linking both countries https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9xvg1kz0mo

A #rebus is a #wordplay #puzzle combining images and letters to represent a word or phrase. Words are represented by combinations of pictures and letters; for instance, "apex" might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X. Moving left to right "say" the images in English and mix in the letters to complete the answer.

when someone in the public eye is trying to defend themselves against allegations of wrongdoing (hello gianni infantino!) they say the accusations are ‘categorically untrue’. i looked up the word ‘category’ and was surprised to learn that its root is from the greek katēgoriā (= assertion, accusation). this is from katēgoros (= an accuser), made of kata (= down, against) and agorā (= assembly). the other surprise in english for me was the gap in meaning between category (= a class of things sharing characteristics) and categorical (= absolute, unconditional, without exception). they seem both to stem from the later greek meaning (assertion of something) but have travelled different paths. #wordplay #GoodMorning

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A #rebus is a #wordplay #puzzle combining images and letters to represent a word or phrase. Words are represented by combinations of pictures and letters; for instance, "apex" might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X. Moving left to right "say" the images in English and mix in the letters to complete the answer.

Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once. Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search! Starting with one of the letters in a gray square, find the longest word. Next letter horizontal or vertical from the first. No diagonals. No square may be used again. Minimum 7 letters

#SundaySillies Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans! Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame. Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can. Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess. Hint: not dead Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape

today, from a quotation in lavinia greenlaw's book (the vast extent), i see that stephen crane used the word 'oilily' (in his novella 'maggie') and… i don't know what to think about that. crane was a careful writer (though i've not read much, and not recently); 'oilily' is a word that i would rewrite to avoid, and i thought anyone with an ear for language, prose or poetry, would too. oilily. say it. eewww. #wordplay

It was random Polish word play just appeared in my head without any reason. In Polish "anioł stróż" - guardian angel is pronounced similar to "anioł struś" - angel ostrich or ostrich angel. And I immediately thought I should draw it some day, like with many word jokes with my friend before. Not so easy to translate Polish jokes like this internationally... #drawing #art #MastoArt #CreativeToots #krita #ArtWithOpenSource #ostrich #angel #WordPlay

A #rebus is a #wordplay #puzzle combining images and letters to represent a word or phrase. Words are represented by combinations of pictures and letters; for instance, "apex" might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X. Moving left to right "say" the images in English and mix in the letters to complete the answer.

#SundaySillies Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans! Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame. Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can. Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess. Hint: un-virtual Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape

Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once. Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search! Starting with one of the letters in a gray square, find the longest word. Next letter horizontal or vertical from the first. No diagonals. No square may be used again. Minimum 7 letters

It finally occurred to me to wonder about the etymology of the word juggernaut, and it surprised me. It is from the Sanskrit word Jagannātha = lord of the world. And yet the common English meaning is ‘large lorry’. Comically mundane. I had imagined the -naut was from the Greek nautes = sailor (as astronaut, Argonaut etc) and was struggling to think what ‘jugger’ might be about. #TIL #wordplay

A #rebus is a #wordplay #puzzle combining images and letters to represent a word or phrase. Words are represented by combinations of pictures and letters; for instance, "apex" might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X. Moving left to right "say" the images in English and mix in the letters to complete the answer.

#SundaySillies Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans! Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame. Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can. Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess. Hint: steadfast Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape inspired by @jo@noavailabledisk.space

Today I learned that jaunt and jaunty are completely unrelated words, both in meaning and etymology. And as a result of my not knowing that, I’ve misunderstood the meaning of jaunty. Jaunty is an import from the French gentil (= kind, nice) in English meaning gentlemanly, cheerful, confident, and eventually smart and stylish. A jaunt, on the other hand, is an excursion, or a ramble; to jaunt is to make an excursion from place to place. The origin of jaunt is obscure, according to my Chambers, but they note that its early meanings correspond with the (now obsolete) word jaunce (= to prance, or cause a horse to prance). Jaunce also has an even more obscure dialect definition = a wearisome journey. Anyway, there you are: wear your hat at a jaunty angle while out on a jaunt. Or not. #wordplay