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English Language Examples of Use and Origins

By davieG, in General Chat

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Trav Le Bleu

Trav Le Bleu

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9 minutes ago, davieG said:

May be an image of text that says "WORDNERD: Did you know? -Dreamt is the only word that ends in mt. The oldest word in the English language is 'town'. -'Bookkeeper' and 'bookkeeping' are the only 2 words in the English language with three consecutive double letters. -The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle. -The word 'testify' derived from a time when men were required to swear on their testicles. forreadingaddicts"

Just checked and although they share a common root, there's no evidence to success that people used to swear on their testicles.

 

However, orchids' name comes from the Greek for testicle, as their roots look like testicles.

danny.

danny.

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23 hours ago, davieG said:

May be an image of text that says "NEWS Full stops can annoy Gen z, warn linguists Using full stops in texts and messages could offend or upset young people, linguists have warned. Teenagers and those in their early 20s Generation z -who have grown up using short messages to communicate can see the punctuation mark as a symbol of curt passive passive-aggression. Linguist Dr Lauren Fonteyn tweeted: "If you add that additional marker for completion, they will read something into it and it tends to be a falling intonation or negative tone.""

That's fair, I read into that myself as a millennial - only with informal communication though. Add exclamation marks to everything to make it seem more friendly!

dsr-burnley

dsr-burnley

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On 19/11/2025 at 15:21, davieG said:

May be an image of text that says "NEWS Full stops can annoy Gen z, warn linguists Using full stops in texts and messages could offend or upset young people, linguists have warned. Teenagers and those in their early 20s Generation z -who have grown up using short messages to communicate can see the punctuation mark as a symbol of curt passive passive-aggression. Linguist Dr Lauren Fonteyn tweeted: "If you add that additional marker for completion, they will read something into it and it tends to be a falling intonation or negative tone.""

If someone is desperately determined to find something to be upset or offended about, then surely it's more polite to give them a full stop so they can have the satisfaction of feeling themselves to be slighted?

 

I presume Ulysses is the favourite book of teenage snowflakes?

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