benjaminmerva.bsky.social

05 March 2025 22:09

"Tamal" is an exception for Spanish nouns and the L plus vowel rule. The English "Tamale" is the singular form back formation from Spanish speakers using "Tamales"

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quuux.bsky.social

08 February 2025 00:43

The "poop deck", however, is placed on the aft/stern, and not named for its function.

Hank Green

hankgreen.bsky.social

24 January 2025 16:58

All I’m saying is, if Pluto were orbiting Jupiter it would be the fifth most interesting moon of Jupiter.

Paweł Ausir Dembowski

ausir.bsky.social

07 January 2025 08:42

And there are kanji-latin and kanji-kana characters in actual use, some of which have recently been proposed for Unicode encoding (alongside some han-hangul hybrids too) 🐦🐦 unicode.org/L2/L2024/242...

Etymologist

etymology.bsky.social

06 January 2025 03:02

Weekends are for language memes