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just mucking about in history.
November 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 7:37 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.
October 16, 2025 at 3:53 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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October 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Today's Etymonline weather report and daily Jumble clues.
September 26, 2025 at 4:09 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.
September 13, 2025 at 2:48 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.
September 11, 2025 at 1:35 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."
September 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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 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].
August 20, 2025 at 2:04 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?
August 16, 2025 at 2:48 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:
July 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Today's weather report-cum-beat poetry. More reliable than an n-gram! Punctuate as desired.
July 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
July 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Today's Weather Alert

opens with thrums in the night
June 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM