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Me am good at the words!
Actually, I’m pretty impressed considering yesterday I couldn’t remember the word “freezer” and asked my husband to get the frozen chips out of the “cold oven”
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LP, Tue 24 Sep 2024, 18:47,
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Sounds like something Susie Dent wrote about recently on Twitter:
"I'm writing today about kennings in Old English. Essentially these are two word-metaphors that were used instead of concrete nouns, and they are exquisite. A ship was a 'wave-horse', the sea was a 'whale-road', the mind was a " 'thought-chamber', and the sun was a 'sky-candle'."
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Varmint, Wed 25 Sep 2024, 14:48,
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