#WordWednesday: "verschlimmbessern" (German). To make something worse by trying to improve it: verschlimmern (worsen) plus verbessern (improve). Every learner who has rewritten a sentence that started out correct knows this verb. ✏️ #LanguageLearning

It's time for another #WordWednesday! If you really knew how to work the dance floor, they called you this. What do you think? Should we bring it back from the 1920s to the 2020s?

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Today's Kentish word, taken from our online dictionary is

Hatch-up
vb.
To prepare for. "I think it's hatching up for snow." "She's hatching up a cold."
A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms (1888). Pg 71

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I missed #WordWednesday yesterday! Whoops. How about #throwbackthursday? What do you think — should we bring it back?

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Word Wednesday: today is International Translation Day. Italian has a phrase for the whole profession's dilemma: "traduttore, traditore," translator, traitor. Every translation betrays the original a little to serve the reader. ⚖️ #WordWednesday #LearnItalian

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Dispassionate. #WordWednesday www.wordnik.com/words/dispas...

It’s time for another #WordWednesday! What do you think? Shall we bring it back?

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Little flipping b*tches (wentelteefjes): French toast. The word teef used to indicate a certain form of pastry or cake, but these days, it sounds a bit odd. Perhaps we should go with the French: pain perdu, or 'lost bread'.

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Today's Kentish word, taken from our online dictionary is

Gutter-grub
gut-ur-grub. N. One who delights in doing dirsty work and getting himself into a mess; a low person. A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms (1888). Pg 68

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#WordWednesday: "flâner" (French). To wander without destination, purely to notice the city. Not lost. Not late. A flâneur has nowhere to be, which is the entire point. #LanguageLearning #LearnFrench

Here’s a new #poem called “an imperfect mechanism” for this #wordwednesday

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It's time for another #WordWednesday! Here's some 1920s queer slang. 

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📚💙 For #WordWednesday, a serious word about suicide. And laughter, which can be medicinal. wapo.st/46si51u

Its #WordWednesday

Today's Kentish word, taken from our online dictionary is

Gurt
adj. Great. A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms (1888). Pg 68.

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Word Wednesday: "Fernweh" (German). Literally far-sickness. The ache for a place you have never been, the opposite of homesickness. Some people are homesick for somewhere they have not found yet. ✈️ #WordWednesday #LearnGerman

It's time for another #WordWednesday! Dewdropper is the 1920s-version of a scrub and remember what TLC told us . . .

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Today's word is more of a pronunciation issue. The first time I heard my daughter talk of a Mento, I paused. I'd never realised Mentos could be plural. I looked it up, and officially, 1 sweet is still a Mentos. But in Holland, we pronounce it Men-Toss. Chew on that for a while.

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Today’s Kentish word is Gratten (grat-un), meaning stubble or a stubble field—also known as ersh, eddish, grotten or podder-gratten.

From A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect (1888).

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