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@dianea

Just a guess, but maybe because we are lazy and didn't change the noun between while it was being built and after it was built?

Could also be to match other noun/verb conflations, like writings, workings, etc...

Might make for an interesting #RobWords episode...

@kibcol1049

@bytebro

You get to burn less of the group after Rob Watts has weighed in.

Especially as, even today and despite that 'years' is both countable and plural (either of the two non-equivalent forms of the supposed rule), you won't find people saying that Robert Baker only made up the rule from whole cloth *fewer* than 400 years ago.

(-:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BccyQaNKXz8&t=1032

#EnglishLanguage #fewer #less #RobWords

Ha, mein Plan für Neujahr steht! 😊

Zum Fest der Beschneidung des Herrn wird hier so gott- wie gnadenlos #RobWords gebinget.

https://www.youtube.com/@RobWords/videos

Just discovered a #youtube channel #RobWords. After two videos (Hieroglyphs and Toki Pona) I subscribed to it and I am binging all his videos.
https://youtube.com/@robwords

ANGLISH: English without the 'foreign' bits - Robwords

@drahardja I love #RobWords

Danke für das Verlinken des brillanten #RobWords, @Exxo 🙏

Ja, die Grundidee war eine Rückkehr zu den jüdischen Namen. Aber dann wären Frauen immer noch unterrepräsentiert gewesen & es hätte sich die Frage nach der Repräsentanz weiterer Kulturen in der deutschen #Buchstabiertafel gestellt. Durch #Städtenamen ließen sich alle einbeziehen, mit Ausnahme von #Bremen auch alle Bundesländer. https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/b-wie-berlin-babylon-preussen-und-der-fossile-faschismus/

Waaaah!

#TIL that [warranty and guarantee], plus [guardian and warden], are actually the same words. No, not just synonyms, but the same French words in different dialects! Back in the days of the Norman conquest of England, Normandy spoke a more Scandinavian flavour of French (because they came from Scandinavia - Norman = North men), which used the w sound when Parisian French used the gu sound.

So William the Conqueror would have been Guillaume in the other dialect.

My mind is blown. What else is being hidden from us!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PCE4C9GvqI0

#RobWords #Etymology #funfacts #language #linguistics #history

@wisegreyowl

There was an interesting YouTube video with RobWords the other week about words for measurements that touched on the word "yard". The "yard" that is an enclosed area used to be spelled with a ''g' and has the same root as "garden".

#EnglishLanguage #RobWords

I just learned that the word “hello” is a recent invention brought on by the invention of the telephone as a way to initiate a conversation. And the original sign off suggestion was not “goodbye” but “that is all”. I want to use that from now on. #RobWords

We, as writers, don’t want to write in clichés though we often speak in them. I think the most apt contemporary term for “cliché”, in reference to its origins, would be “snippet” though I doubt we’ll ever hear anyone say “Oh God. This story is so snippet.”. Just learning about the origin of the word. Fascinating stuff. #RobWords #WritingCommunity

Where did our numbers come from?

#RobWords

Why do our numbers look the way they look? Why do we count the way we count? These questions answered and many more in this video looking at where English got its numbering system.

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=uYhOFQ7eruE

wenn es nicht anders geht
https://youtu.be/uYhOFQ7eruE