æthelflæd

æthelflæd

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i think israel has québec disease (except somehow even worse) where every party wants to be blue because that's our national colour

sorry but first past the post just makes for so much better election watching i'm not sure it's worth it to give that up just for "better representation" of people's "political views"

the us is actually pretty good at football. you just have to care about women’s sports and that’s apparently a tough ask for a lot of people

managed to get people to accept basedly and unbasedly accepted as words in scrabble (with some degree of controversy and a close vote) and still lost 😭

ever start reading a book because you mentioned you were reading it to someone (in reality you haven’t picked it up in at the very least several months and that probably to read a single paragraph)

just realised i think i have both centre and center orthographically sometimes i don't think it's a 100% consistent distinction but i think maybe centre is like the place (usually a something centre), but the middle of something is a center something?

potentially stupid question, but does anyone know if there's anything about the arabic prepositions most transparently derived from nouns (like ones that just look like the construct accusative of an existing noun) that actually makes them not nouns?

i feel like papers (and other stuff too, for that matter) should link to archived versions of pages so they they're less likely to just end up with dead links within a few years that will just continue to point to nothing for the rest of eternity

I love that الإشمام, which seems to refer to pronouncing /y/ in some contexts, is the verbal noun of 'make sniff/smell'. I never would have thought to describe it that way but it just kinda makes sense

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