Sounds & Syllables

Rewriting Sounds & Syllables <ce> and <se> endings units.

Screw you, Anglo-Norman scholars.

never say never, but I stopped them at 200 as they were taking so much of my time and fewer and fewer people were downloading them.

True if you a Britta or similar - they remove little. But a ZeroWater filter removes everything. The downside is that the filters are pricier and you need to remineralise the water. I use the mineral set from Apax Labs.

If you must use bottled, apparently Volvic is one of the better for coffee.

It depends on the brand of water. Many have too much mineral content. And the plastic.

Just buy a filter jug. The one by ZeroWater makes great tasting coffee.

OK, this is going to the last in the series - at least for now.

I've been making these for 4 years now and it's becoming more and more of a chore than something enjoyable.

I might post them periodically as the whim takes me, so you might see more in the future.

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Congratulations, Chris. Well deserved.

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Such beautiful food at Core today.

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I’m really looking forward to getting my paws on this. Chris’ last book is probably the best all-round primer on teaching ready. I’m sure this will be equally good.

It should be resolved now.

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You are more than welcome.

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It sounds perfectly fine to me (and doesn’t feel like an Americanism). I’m fairly sure that’s because I grew up hearing it in Lincolnshire.

It’s definitely still used here.

I was already using the News feed, but I don’t find it particularly useful - and it’s often late to the party.

It’s often the individual journalists and commentators that are first to break things and those tend not to be on the News feed.

Same issue. Checked Twitter a few days ago and saw S Korea trending. Not a peep here, so thought I'd better follow more news outlets & journos.

Since then, that's all that comes up in my feed despite being a tiny fraction of the accounts that I follow, presumably because they have more followers.

These look really cool! I like the layout.

Thank you very much.

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Just arrived in North Wales for a day of spelling goodness.

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A hemispherical bowl made of mosaic cast glass. Translucent dark blue with opaque white spirals. There is slight corrosion and weathering of the glass. The bowl has been restored. Height: 7.2 cm, diameter: 13.1 cm. The effect of the museum lighting shining through the blue glass with white swirls brings to mind the painting ‘Starry Night’ by Vincent Van Gogh.

Stunning 2,000 year-old Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looking like a Starry Night! 💫

Tranlucent dark blue glass with opaque white spirals. From Canosa di Puglia. Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany 📷 by me

#AncientBlueSky 🏺
#Archaeology

Oneteen, twoteen? The origins of ‘eleven’ and ‘twelve’ Reading time: 5 minutes November, at time of writing, is ticking out its final few hours, and with them, the eleventh month of 2024 is giving way to the twelfth. Aside from the awkward mismatch in …

For the end of November, shortly before the eleventh month became the twelfth, I wrote a piece all about those two numbers.

Why does English have the words 'eleven' and 'twelve'? How do they relate to 'one' and 'two'?

And what does Lithuanian have to do with all this?
dannybate.com/2024/11/30/o...

Thank you, Jodi.

Hopefully, I start to get enough engagement here that I can quit the bad place altogether.

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Thank you 🙂