Cool resource for a word junkie

Apr. 26th, 2012 at 2:47 PM

I just stumbled on this today:

Online Etymology Dictionary

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php

This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

Current Mood: bouncy

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fenikkusuken

Apr. 26th, 2012 09:25 pm (UTC)

*bookmarked*

Hey, you! How's the bunny-wrangling going?

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knittingknots

Apr. 27th, 2012 12:21 am (UTC)

got about 11400 k done on what's turn into a post manga soap opera...been posting 2 chapters a week (short, 1500-2500 words each) since the beginning of December. Put all the other bunnies on hold for a while...I should have called it Days of Our Lives, Sengoku Jidai Version...LOL. Like all good soap opera, it moves at a glacial pace...of the 44 chapters I have up so far, I've covered 11 days story time.

Some of the other bunnies are getting lonesome, though. But it's been nice doing a break like this. Fits very nicely into my real-life schedule. Maybe I'll pull out one of the sitting on the backburner stories soon and see if it'll behave.

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