Random and inconsistent snippets from an unstructured mind. My truth may not be your truth. A fact is a fact only by standing on it.
It can't fall down, there is nothing holding it up...
Except some sort of capitalist exploitation. The writer is a 3rd generation Indigenous Australian. Not, i might add, Aboriginal - two different concepts.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Weird words
Following along on the Harry Potter meme . theme .. whatever .. Why does the word weird NOT follow the rules of "english" language? Or is it wierd .. oh dear.. am i allowed to stumble through the door.
More of a hypothetical question, Billy B, and this is another of those random and inconsistent snippets that slip out of my mind. Was looking at something else and the word looked .. well, peculiar. Couldn't work it out for a while until it occurred to me that am used to reading words under the "i before e except after c" rule .. but that seems to apply mostly to words of Latin or Greek origin.
The word comes from Old English (Anglo-Saxon, West Germanic - Frisian) word "Wyrd", meaning .. Fate.
I just threw in the Harry Potter linkage for fun, since there has been great kerfuffle in the news recently about the new book.
5 comments:
Harry Potter, spare me, never read any of the books and never will, don't do much fiction.
Reality is hard enough to try to figure out.
It's weird as far as I know, wierd isn't in my dictionary. And my spell check doesn't like it either.
More of a hypothetical question, Billy B, and this is another of those random and inconsistent snippets that slip out of my mind. Was looking at something else and the word looked .. well, peculiar. Couldn't work it out for a while until it occurred to me that am used to reading words under the "i before e except after c" rule .. but that seems to apply mostly to words of Latin or Greek origin.
The word comes from Old English (Anglo-Saxon, West Germanic - Frisian) word "Wyrd", meaning .. Fate.
I just threw in the Harry Potter linkage for fun, since there has been great kerfuffle in the news recently about the new book.
wyrd .. mm, have just looked it up .. the things one learns while having fun.
And then there's wired. And wider! Damn, don't you just LUVVVV English?
Had a foreign friend once who couldn't get "chicken" and "kitchen" straight.
Feisty foreign friend feigns fiendish feint.
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