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Yes, friends, soon it might be time for another Etymonline Fireside Chat, brought to you by Old Rabbit Hole beer: 'Fall down one and get lost!'
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This morning's etymonline Trending Words list. Thanks to the London tabloids and somehow a Kardashian we dumped merkins in everyone's breakfast feed. Also, apologies to this morning's classroom spelling teachers.
October 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This morning's etymonline Trending Words list. Thanks to the London tabloids and somehow a Kardashian we dumped merkins in everyone's breakfast feed. Also, apologies to this morning's classroom spelling teachers.
In Halloween season 2025, is it acceptable to speak of "spooks" and "spooky?" Don't ask us; we live in the past. But those words have twisty history:
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October 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
In Halloween season 2025, is it acceptable to speak of "spooks" and "spooky?" Don't ask us; we live in the past. But those words have twisty history:
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Today's Etymonline weather report and daily Jumble clues.
September 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Today's Etymonline weather report and daily Jumble clues.
"And the fire and the rose are one." Cut 5 and 8 and it flows top to end like a sermon heard from a distant room.
September 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"And the fire and the rose are one." Cut 5 and 8 and it flows top to end like a sermon heard from a distant room.
Today's etymonline weather forecast and Emily Dickinson rough draft. Feels more cheerful than usual. "Hello, enigma!" "Good morning, Science!" Do you like this hat? No.
September 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Today's etymonline weather forecast and Emily Dickinson rough draft. Feels more cheerful than usual. "Hello, enigma!" "Good morning, Science!" Do you like this hat? No.
Hot off the press and educational as all:
but she is!
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The Shadow
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underpants
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but she is!
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The Shadow
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underpants
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Cinderella Undercover
The imposition of modern senses onto an old word for shock value.
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September 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Hot off the press and educational as all:
but she is!
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The Shadow
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underpants
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but she is!
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The Shadow
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underpants
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Today's etymonline weather forecast and aria libretto. It opens mundane but comes to life midway. "Gauze philosophy." "Holy resilience!" Then the villain-name du jour, "Histamine Rigmarole."
September 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Today's etymonline weather forecast and aria libretto. It opens mundane but comes to life midway. "Gauze philosophy." "Holy resilience!" Then the villain-name du jour, "Histamine Rigmarole."
Today's Etymonline Weather Forecast and Poetry Slam Stage Name Generator (dibs on Resilient Doughnut)
August 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Today's Etymonline Weather Forecast and Poetry Slam Stage Name Generator (dibs on Resilient Doughnut)
Today's Etymonline Weather Report and Wierdle Answers
[must have been a quiz out there somewhere yesterday, involving place names in "-mouth." As for the rest of it, there's a "trending" trend for the last five or six words on the list to form a subplot of their own, occasionally whimsical].
[must have been a quiz out there somewhere yesterday, involving place names in "-mouth." As for the rest of it, there's a "trending" trend for the last five or six words on the list to form a subplot of their own, occasionally whimsical].
August 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Today's Etymonline Weather Report and Wierdle Answers
[must have been a quiz out there somewhere yesterday, involving place names in "-mouth." As for the rest of it, there's a "trending" trend for the last five or six words on the list to form a subplot of their own, occasionally whimsical].
[must have been a quiz out there somewhere yesterday, involving place names in "-mouth." As for the rest of it, there's a "trending" trend for the last five or six words on the list to form a subplot of their own, occasionally whimsical].
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English and French get along like step-sisters raised together. English and German are twins separated at birth.
English and French get along like step-sisters raised together. English and German are twins separated at birth.
August 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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English and French get along like step-sisters raised together. English and German are twins separated at birth.
English and French get along like step-sisters raised together. English and German are twins separated at birth.
Today's Etymological Weather Report and Bridge Hand
The top two cards offer devilish clever twists in the forked senses of "assumption."
From about no. 5 to the end they begin to draw pairs. "Nice morning. Spooky culture. Gossip. Memoir." A casual chat or a life story in six words?
The top two cards offer devilish clever twists in the forked senses of "assumption."
From about no. 5 to the end they begin to draw pairs. "Nice morning. Spooky culture. Gossip. Memoir." A casual chat or a life story in six words?
August 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Today's Etymological Weather Report and Bridge Hand
The top two cards offer devilish clever twists in the forked senses of "assumption."
From about no. 5 to the end they begin to draw pairs. "Nice morning. Spooky culture. Gossip. Memoir." A casual chat or a life story in six words?
The top two cards offer devilish clever twists in the forked senses of "assumption."
From about no. 5 to the end they begin to draw pairs. "Nice morning. Spooky culture. Gossip. Memoir." A casual chat or a life story in six words?
Keep it under your hat that Roman emperors also got whole months renamed after themselves. Once word is out that branding the calendar is the badge of a mighty ruler, brace yourself for Dontober.
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August 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Keep it under your hat that Roman emperors also got whole months renamed after themselves. Once word is out that branding the calendar is the badge of a mighty ruler, brace yourself for Dontober.
www.etymonline.com/word/august
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Today's etymonline "trending words" weather report-slash-band-name-generator. Better jump on "Nifty Kamchatka" before it's taken. Sage advice at 4.-5. Current Events from 6. to the end, Punctuate at will, Gridley:
July 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Today's etymonline "trending words" weather report-slash-band-name-generator. Better jump on "Nifty Kamchatka" before it's taken. Sage advice at 4.-5. Current Events from 6. to the end, Punctuate at will, Gridley:
Today's weather report-cum-beat poetry. More reliable than an n-gram! Punctuate as desired.
July 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Today's weather report-cum-beat poetry. More reliable than an n-gram! Punctuate as desired.
July 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The case for "Gal."
For Me and My Gals
I love the word “gal” and use it quite a bit in my speech. So it came as a bit of a surprise to be told recently by a friend that she would never use the word. In fact, she said, she finds the use …
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June 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The case for "Gal."
Today's Weather Alert
opens with thrums in the night
opens with thrums in the night
June 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Today's Weather Alert
opens with thrums in the night
opens with thrums in the night
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A bundle of broken mirrors
Lost in the Library
The garbled, astonishing life of Miss Elizabeth Ham
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May 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A bundle of broken mirrors
Straight Arrow to a crooked road.
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May 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Straight Arrow to a crooked road.
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