Here are my recent ones-
Jettison
Dastardly
Cerulean
Harlot
Flummox
Aghast
Escapade
Juke
Scrawl
Torrential
Chintzy
Resplendent
Vagabond
Skin Flint
Tessellate
Simulacrum
Accolade
Trill
Befuddled
I am learning some basic chemistry in English and I come up with the question
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I read a 1657 book called the Art of Simpling by William Coles. Wiktionary says Simpling is "an expedition to gather plants; a herborizing."
I wondered if it was a variation of sampling, but Wiktionary says it comes from simple. I was wondering if anyone had any insight into the origin of this word.
For example after watching Braveheart I realized that there were distinctions between Scottish Irish English names.... or even for example that certain names had a connection e.g. CHARLES CHUCK CHARLEY CARL all mean FREED MAN OR FREEMAN HENCE a connection to the FREEMAN surname
Something I’ve been noticing and that has also been kind of bothering me is people’s, i think, increasing tendency to move stress to the beginning of certain words/phrases, but specifically two word phrases describing objects.
to me it seems like just an attempt to sound cool? idk if that’s the right way to put it
for example, these are two phrases that i have always heard with stress on the last syllable:
cream CHEESE
hash BROWNS
i think this is the obvious stress pattern because it’s a descriptive word followed by the noun it’s describing
and it honestly really irks me when people increasingly say them like
CREAM cheese
or
HASH browns
because it comes off like they’re trying to be nonchalant or something.
have any of y’all noticed this?
there are also some single words that this applies to, like crouTON, or, as some people would say, CROUton
This is my first post here, so i don’t now if this exactly fits the subreddit. what flair would this be?
edit: since so many people seem to be so incredulous at these pronounciations for things, i found a cool website that has a bunch of pronounciations on youtube to look at so you can believe me lol: https://youglish.com/pronounce/hash_browns/english/us
ive found my pronounciations for cream cheese, hash browns, and tofu on here, but not crouton for some reason (and if you want some more information on where they might come from, i assume i acquired english in florida)
From the IOS App (La route des mots) i maid ^^ that visualizes the historical “routes” of French words — where they come from and how they traveled across languages.
Verb "To read" in other european languages:
German:Lesen
Spanish:Leer
French:lire
Portuguese:ler
Maybe my Googling skills are failing me, but from what I can tell, both prefixes mean, "bad, poor, ill, evil." So why is one used instead of the other? Why do we have cacophony, and not dysphony. Why dysphoria, and not cacophoria?