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❓️ Which is the only English city named after a woman?
🤢 What is Nottingham's disgusting former name?
🏰 What's so new about Newcastle's castle?
Watch my 🎥NEW VIDEO🎥 to find out!
(Please, it took aaages)
youtu.be/517gTjBLVy4?si=rd40…
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Our members Adrian (Sutton) Bailey and Adrian (Oldbury) Bailey are doing a Scrabblethon on Monday-Tuesday from Birmingham to Perth (Scotland) and back by train in aid of charity localgiving.org/fundraising/…
@GylesB1 @susie_dent @robwordsYT @GeoffLindsey @Woogles_io @WESPAScrabble – at Hardwick, England
Discover the [linguistic] source of your anger, your anguish, and your angina in my latest wordy nerdy newsletter:
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HEFTY NEWS!
I’m taking my wordy nerdy show to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
I’ll be doing 10 nights at the Assembly George Square Studios from 6th to 16th August.
I can barely ruddy believe it! I’d love to see you there.
Tickets: assemblyfestival.com/whats-o…
As of today, I'm now on the streaming platform Nebula!
Subscribers can access ad-free versions of RobWords videos and other goodies, as well as those of hundreds of other creators.
My fancy link gives a big old discount, too: go.nebula.tv/robwords
It was a profound (and somewhat profane) pleasure to have the professor on the podcast.
Revisiting my old stomping grounds - CUSSING and slurs - with Rob Words and Jess Zafaris on Words Unravelled! youtu.be/6JYqGa_-UZE
What accent would a talking monkey have?
That's one question answered in my latest video exploring the language of the animal kingdom.
Do please give it a watch:
youtu.be/pjLmIpOGNXA?si=jAOc…
If you’re looking for some gentle Christmas viewing, here’s @JessZafarris and me going through some festive word origins:
youtu.be/9A0hAxeFyo4
I am tremendously excited about this.
Join me for evening of word-nerdery at London's Bloomsbury Theatre.
Tickets just went on sale here: ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-theatre…
I've just published another newsletter brimming with wordy nerdy curiosities.
Did you know there's a word for "shaped like a turnip"?
Read the whole thing for free here:
robwords.substack.com/p/the-…
I did! And I highly recommend Dr. Danny's linguistics newsletter. It's the best way to stay on top of the latest language research. Linguisticdiscovery.com
RobWords of YouTube fame ( @robwordsYT ), lover of word facts and haver of language fun, recently started a Substack! Join his 11,000 other subscribers below.
ALFA BRAVO CHARLIE DELTA
The NATO Phonetic Alphabet is neither phonetic nor a product of NATO.
But, OSCAR MIKE GOLF, is its true origin story fascinating.
Check out my video here (2 million people already have!): youtu.be/UAT-eOzeY4M
W[h]AT [p)SYC[h]O DESI[g]NED OUR TONG[ue]??
English has a major silent letter problem.
How did it end up this way?
Wa[t]ch my new video to find out: youtu.be/NXVqZpHY5R8
Word Unravelled just hit 100k subscribers on YouTube!
For such a geeky little channel, that is fabulous. Thank you if you subscribed.
And thanks to @jesszafarris & @martynmnw for making it all so fun.
BEHOLD my latest video, in which a sweaty man tries to teach you hieroglyphs.
youtu.be/90An1dnvwyc
Please watch.
Cheers,
𓂋𓃀𓏏
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🏋🏻♀️ OUNCE and 📏 INCH both trace back to the exact same Latin word: UNCIA meaning "twelfth".
That's why there are 12 inches to the foot and... 16 ounces to the pound (blame the French).
For all manner of measurement etymology, give my NEW VIDEO a watch: youtu.be/pM3c328VifA
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Use the Oxford comma, folks.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is a digitally altered image. AM archive of the original magazine cover from the now defunct website of Tails Inc magazine is here:
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It’s not clear from the post that the photoshopped cover is meant to be satirical or ironic.
FLIPPIN' HECK!!
Words Unravelled has been nominated for a BRITISH PODCAST AWARD!
Working with @JessZafarris on this has been such spectacular wordy nerdy fun.
Thank you so much if you have listened or watched.
#britishpodcastawards
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