Mark
@statsman.bsky.social
Live in the UK. Don’t do much but I do read books & listen to rock music
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Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).
July 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).
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Whoa Black Betty
June 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Whoa Black Betty
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To celebrate the completion of The Library Trilogy with THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART, I'm giving away the full set of signed Locked Library special editions.
To enter just repost.
Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances.
Winner chosen randomly from all entries.
To enter just repost.
Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances.
Winner chosen randomly from all entries.
April 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
To celebrate the completion of The Library Trilogy with THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART, I'm giving away the full set of signed Locked Library special editions.
To enter just repost.
Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances.
Winner chosen randomly from all entries.
To enter just repost.
Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances.
Winner chosen randomly from all entries.
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Word of the day is ‘foozle’, from the 19th century: of a golfer, to bungle a shot. More generally, to make a complete mess of something.
April 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Word of the day is ‘foozle’, from the 19th century: of a golfer, to bungle a shot. More generally, to make a complete mess of something.
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Word of the day is ‘erumpent’ (17th century), which describes buds and blossom that are bursting forth with vigour. Can also be used of energetic humans.
March 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Word of the day is ‘erumpent’ (17th century), which describes buds and blossom that are bursting forth with vigour. Can also be used of energetic humans.
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GNU TERRY PRATCHETT. 28/04/1948 - 12/03/2015
On this day, 10 years ago, the roundworld lost a great author, a husband, a father, a friend.
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
1/3
#GNUTerryPratchett #discworld
On this day, 10 years ago, the roundworld lost a great author, a husband, a father, a friend.
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
1/3
#GNUTerryPratchett #discworld
March 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
GNU TERRY PRATCHETT. 28/04/1948 - 12/03/2015
On this day, 10 years ago, the roundworld lost a great author, a husband, a father, a friend.
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
1/3
#GNUTerryPratchett #discworld
On this day, 10 years ago, the roundworld lost a great author, a husband, a father, a friend.
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
1/3
#GNUTerryPratchett #discworld
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Word of the day is ‘whiffling’ (17th century): fickle, inconstant, and making it up as you go along.
March 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Word of the day is ‘whiffling’ (17th century): fickle, inconstant, and making it up as you go along.
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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
February 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
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Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.
February 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.
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Word of the day is ‘cumber-world’ (14th century): a person or thing that encumbers the planet.
February 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Word of the day is ‘cumber-world’ (14th century): a person or thing that encumbers the planet.
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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
February 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.
February 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.
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On dreich days like these it might cheer you up to know that in 19th-century slang an umbrella was a ‘bumbershoot’.
February 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
On dreich days like these it might cheer you up to know that in 19th-century slang an umbrella was a ‘bumbershoot’.
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Word of the day is ‘ram-stam’ (18th century): impetuous, headstrong, or reckless.
January 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Word of the day is ‘ram-stam’ (18th century): impetuous, headstrong, or reckless.
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Word of the day is ‘matutolypea’: extreme grumpiness in the morning.
From the Latin ‘Matuta’, Roman goddess of the dawn, and the Greek ‘lype’, ‘grief’. Put them together and you get ‘morning grief’.
From the Latin ‘Matuta’, Roman goddess of the dawn, and the Greek ‘lype’, ‘grief’. Put them together and you get ‘morning grief’.
January 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Word of the day is ‘matutolypea’: extreme grumpiness in the morning.
From the Latin ‘Matuta’, Roman goddess of the dawn, and the Greek ‘lype’, ‘grief’. Put them together and you get ‘morning grief’.
From the Latin ‘Matuta’, Roman goddess of the dawn, and the Greek ‘lype’, ‘grief’. Put them together and you get ‘morning grief’.
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Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.
January 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.
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Word of the day is ‘depooperit’, from 18th-century Scots: ‘enfeebled both mentally and physically’.
January 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Word of the day is ‘depooperit’, from 18th-century Scots: ‘enfeebled both mentally and physically’.
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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
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I've gathered the pages missing from the Library trilogy into a collection of four short stories!
Tabula Rasa, Overdue, About Pain, & Returns
in one ebook, paperback, or hardcover.
Yours for mere money!
(cover art @tomsbrown.bsky.social)
Tabula Rasa, Overdue, About Pain, & Returns
in one ebook, paperback, or hardcover.
Yours for mere money!
(cover art @tomsbrown.bsky.social)
January 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I've gathered the pages missing from the Library trilogy into a collection of four short stories!
Tabula Rasa, Overdue, About Pain, & Returns
in one ebook, paperback, or hardcover.
Yours for mere money!
(cover art @tomsbrown.bsky.social)
Tabula Rasa, Overdue, About Pain, & Returns
in one ebook, paperback, or hardcover.
Yours for mere money!
(cover art @tomsbrown.bsky.social)
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Word of the day is ‘pavonise’ (19th century): to strut about like a peacock, all puffed up with conceit.
January 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Word of the day is ‘pavonise’ (19th century): to strut about like a peacock, all puffed up with conceit.
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‘Canadians want to be the 51st state’ suggests to me a person who has never been to Canada, nor listened to any Canadian comedian.
January 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
‘Canadians want to be the 51st state’ suggests to me a person who has never been to Canada, nor listened to any Canadian comedian.
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Word of the day is one I mention often. To have the ‘mubble-fubbles’, in the 16th century, was to experience a fit of despondency or low spirits - another name for the Sunday blues.
January 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Word of the day is one I mention often. To have the ‘mubble-fubbles’, in the 16th century, was to experience a fit of despondency or low spirits - another name for the Sunday blues.
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Word of the Day is ‘hunch-weather’ (19th century): weather so cold it makes you hunch your shoulders when you walk outside.
January 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Word of the Day is ‘hunch-weather’ (19th century): weather so cold it makes you hunch your shoulders when you walk outside.
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There is some gorgeous apricity about this morning: (17th century: warming sun on a winter’s day).
January 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
There is some gorgeous apricity about this morning: (17th century: warming sun on a winter’s day).