Sunshine on campus as two buzzards (too quick to photograph) pass over my old County College before I go to teach. Bliss.

Have any sociolinguists looked at dialect variation for these? Because I’ve just learned they’re not universally ‘party poopers’ in English and I’m disappointed

Festive IPA spotted in the wild (7/10 for effort)

On a pub visit in between covid lockdowns, I saw a line of (what I now know are) wine bucket stands, but I couldn’t work out what they are. My brain came up with ‘tall dog bowl’, as in, a bowl specifically designed for tall dogs