Alt Grrrrrrr
I have never seen this key.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 12 January 2024 22:52 (three months ago) link
Gr Hongro
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 January 2024 23:57 (three months ago) link
i'd guess that every 4-7 years i end up relearning that Stewart Copeland is American
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 20:00 (three months ago) link
I just learned the other day that Klark Kent charted before the Police did.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 22:53 (three months ago) link
shit, I had no idea about Charles Bronson's early life... a Lithuanian Tatar, didn't speak english as a child, worked in coal mines, earned a Purple Heart as a bomber gunner in WWII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 18 January 2024 00:43 (three months ago) link
correction: ^^^^ he spoke English, but not at home
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 18 January 2024 00:48 (three months ago) link
I'm sure all British board members know this already, but I just found out that Grant Shapps is cousin to Mick Jones of The Clash and his brother Andre played in Big Audio Dynamite.
― he had what they call / an indoor complexion (Matt #2), Thursday, 18 January 2024 17:19 (three months ago) link
Black sheep of the family or what?
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:36 (three months ago) link
Just because he was in the Clash doesn't make him that bad imo.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Thursday, 18 January 2024 19:19 (three months ago) link
Good old Shappsythat reminds me, I never finished the latest Partridge podcast
― kinder, Friday, 19 January 2024 16:35 (three months ago) link
I had no idea Magnus Magnusson wrote books and presented TV shows about Vikings and archaeology.
My Canadian partner knew the books and the TV shows but had no idea about Mastermind.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 19 January 2024 16:54 (three months ago) link
Today I learned who Grant Shapps is. I do love this quote:
He said he had "over-firmly denied" having a second job.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 20 January 2024 01:36 (three months ago) link
So I was recently looking into the etymology of tempura, which I knew to be a Portuguese loan word into Japanese.
I had read somewhere that it came from the "times" (i.e., Lent) when one ate fish. With cognates like temporary and temporal. Not unusual for Romance languages derived from Latin dialects.
Then I heard the alternate suggestion that it meant "seasoned." With cognates like tempered, temperament, temperature, temperate, temperamental. Moods, flavors, emotions.
Then it hit me that season, seasoning, seasoned... also are related to the time of year, as well as spices and flavors and condiments.
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 January 2024 15:54 (three months ago) link
it's pumpkin spice all the way down
― mark s, Monday, 22 January 2024 15:57 (three months ago) link
premium YMP content like this makes my ILX subscription well worth it
― budo jeru, Monday, 22 January 2024 17:12 (three months ago) link
^^ agreed, great post ymp! ^^
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 22 January 2024 18:39 (three months ago) link
Mark s, Fun fact: pumpkin spice originally referred to spices you would put ON pumpkin (nutmeg, clove, cinnamon), but - interestingly - not pumpkin. No one wanted squash in their coffee.
Apparently after some complaints, they added a little bit of actual pumpkin flavoring to it to satisfy those persons who felt pumpkin spice should include pumpkin.
I don't really have strong feelings in the matter but it's moderately interesting. (There is a whole "No Such Thing as a Fish" podcast on this
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 January 2024 18:58 (three months ago) link
i did not learn until today that my mom wrote a chapter in the original Our Bodies, Ourselves ??!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 09:19 (three months ago) link
Wow!
― Tim, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 10:14 (three months ago) link
omg tracer!
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 10:21 (three months ago) link
It was when it was still a handmade packet called “Women And Their Bodies” lol. She had absolutely zero medical training but she pointed out that there was no chapter on what was then called VD and they were like “ok do you want to write it?” and she’s like okay
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 11:25 (three months ago) link
Interesting!
I was once contracted to edit and publish a history book on women's health for the U.S. government. Unfortunately this happened to be the year 2000. By the time it was to be published in 2001, a new presidential administration (hi, George Bush, hi Tommy Thompson) directed us to cut out content deemed controversial, which meant nothing about birth control, abortion, or (eek) lesbians.
The book shrank by half.
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 13:14 (three months ago) link
I read Lol Tolhurst talking about Hulme in Manchester and found out how bad the place was as residential area. I think I came across it about 10 years after he did and it was squats, artist residence etc. So I had a nostalgic image of it when it sounds like it was hellish for a family to be moved there.
― Stevo, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:08 (three months ago) link
Just realized chevron (the shape) is related to goat (the animal). Because of the horns.
Cf. Chevre, goat cheese.
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:07 (three months ago) link
Further adventures in pronounciation discovered at a shockingly old age: it's pronounced Laura Nee-ro, not Nye-ro. Hate it when that happens.
― fourth world problems (Matt #2), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:09 (three months ago) link
Oh wow
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:30 (three months ago) link
Like gyro
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:34 (three months ago) link
Huh?
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:39 (three months ago) link
my friend orders "jy-roes" in Greek restaurants and it drives me nuts
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:50 (three months ago) link
I do that too. I plead Jersey.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:57 (three months ago) link
The gy in gyro rhymes with I and guy and pie in the UK too.
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:58 (three months ago) link
Just ask for a doner instead.
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:59 (three months ago) link
Are you telling me you also pronounce gyroscope that way because I can't quite believe that?
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 17:00 (three months ago) link
It's supposed to be yee-ros but obviously most places will understand you if you say jy-ros.
Of course there are also sandwiches called heroes.
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 17:02 (three months ago) link
Alba, they come from the same root! Turning or spinning.
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 17:08 (three months ago) link
Exactly
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 17:41 (three months ago) link
And we say them the same
https://www.rd.com/article/how-to-pronounce-gyro/
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 17:48 (three months ago) link
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 17:50 (three months ago) link
I pronounce them hong-roes
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 17:56 (three months ago) link
This is the second piece of Hongro wordplay I've seen on ILE this week and I'm here for it.
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 18:00 (three months ago) link
Gyros is just the Greek word for a doner kebab, the Greeks being loath to give the Turks any credit for anything.
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 18:06 (three months ago) link
I'm sure they felt hard done-r
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 18:13 (three months ago) link
We were at our local Greek restaurant recently and the waitress came by to ask if we needed anything else.
My wife kicked me under the table because she knew I was about to sing WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER YEE-RO
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 18:44 (three months ago) link
OMG Jy-Ros is a capital crime where I come from!
― Enjoy Nuoc Mam With Mr. Qualk (I M Losted), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:14 (three months ago) link
courtesy of a mistake in my grocery delivery I have just learned that Grey Poupon mustard is not actually grey and is called that because it was invented by 2 blokes called Grey and Poupon
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:46 (three months ago) link
Someone once told me that they overheard someone else order 'FAH-ju-TAZZ' in a Mexican restaurant. One of the more impressively hilarious food-based mispronunciations I've ever encountered.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:50 (three months ago) link
I worked in a California Mex restaurant, and I got:
"fuh-JAH-tas""fuh-JAI-tas""faj-tuhs"
but what I rarely got was tipped
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:51 (three months ago) link
we could eat yee-ros, just for one day
― fetter, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:51 (three months ago) link
Not really shocking but I just learned a useful term that was borrowed from the French, jeune premier, which means a young man who plays romantic leads. See also jeune premiere for actresses.
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 00:04 (three months ago) link