etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 03/07/2026wright is the modern spelling of a noun derived from the verb work. Wrought is the old past tense of the verb work. Both developments are in Old English. A similar prehistoric sound pattern is involved in think/thought. 120
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Headline: "UFC FIGHTER PROCLAIMS THE GOSPEL AFTER WHITE HOUSE WIN." History: 110
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Float like a butterfly ...etymonline.comSPELL LIKE A BEEA "spelling bee" ought to be in a class with a talking horse or a flying pig. 083
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 07/02/2026A scolding? A loving wish? A whispered hope? A field of blank snow, or ten perfect flakes? The ether asks you which you are. 041
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Splendid! Is there a link to it yet? And please make a database of your slang collection. It would be invaluable. 130
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 02/02/2026You! How are you doing? I haven't seen your name in a while. Looks like Greek for "thistle." New one to me. I'll look into it if you remember to remind me when I don't. 120
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. We've been spotted in the Epstein files. www.patreon.com/posts/149679...patreon.comBombshell: Etymonline in Epstein Files | etymonlineGet more from etymonline on Patreon 020
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Andrew's right. Doug from 2001 or so, Talia came on to help in a regular way about 2023. 130
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 26/01/2026"As fear is the principle of despotic government, its end is tranquility ; but this tranquility cannot be called a peace : no, it is only the silence of those towns which the enemy is ready to invade." [Montesquieu, "The Spirit of the Laws," 1748, Hafner Library translation] 0266
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 26/01/2026"As virtue is necessary in a republic, and in a monarchy honor, so fear is necessary in a despotic government : with regard to virtue, there is no occasion for it, and honor would be extremely dangerous." [Montesquieu, "The Spirit of the Laws," 1748, Hafner Library translation] 061
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Etymonline's Doug Harper sat down recently with Grammar Girl's Mignon Fogarty and we nerdified about words. See what you think! "Grammar" is top of the etymonline trending list today. Take it as a sign. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...podcasts.apple.comBuilding the Online Etymology Dictionary, with Doug HarperPodcast Episode · Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing · 01/15/2026 · 34m 0132
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 14/12/2025It's not what you think.patreon.comSunday, Naughty Sunday | etymonlineGet more from etymonline on Patreon 010
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 13/12/2025patreon.comBrittany Truck and her Waggish Family | etymonlineGet more from etymonline on Patreon 010
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 13/12/2025One hopes not but "trendings" is such a drawn-out snivel of a word. Trendies was best word for the job. Social media posting is trawling for eyeballs, anyhow, not writing, says me. 010
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Today's Trendings parsed on Patreonpatreon.comToday's Trendies | etymonlineGet more from etymonline on Patreon 121
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 24/11/2025This recommendation is out of etymonline's lane. Except that love like English also is a language and both involve tongues. If you crave a cove of humanity, there's one in this podcast, which is knife-sharp and human-soft all at once. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comThe Ex Appeal PodcastRelationships Podcast · Host Miriam Katz interviews every person she has ever been romantic with on any level, from a 5th grade pizza date to an orthodox rabbi to a stripper she once hooked up with. E... 020
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Yes, friends, soon it might be time for another Etymonline Fireside Chat, brought to you by Old Rabbit Hole beer: 'Fall down one and get lost!' Or it might not. But you won't know unless you follow us on Patreon. You'll also know a few other things. www.patreon.com/c/etymonline 020
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 16/10/2025This morning's etymonline Trending Words list. Thanks to the London tabloids and somehow a Kardashian we dumped merkins in everyone's breakfast feed. Also, apologies to this morning's classroom spelling teachers. 0102
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 10/10/2025In Halloween season 2025, is it acceptable to speak of "spooks" and "spooky?" Don't ask us; we live in the past. But those words have twisty history: www.etymonline.com/columns/post... 0103
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Today's Etymonline weather report and daily Jumble clues. 000
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 13/09/2025"And the fire and the rose are one." Cut 5 and 8 and it flows top to end like a sermon heard from a distant room. 040
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Today's etymonline weather forecast and Emily Dickinson rough draft. Feels more cheerful than usual. "Hello, enigma!" "Good morning, Science!" Do you like this hat? No. 020
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Hot off the press and educational as all: but she is! www.etymonline.com/columns/post... The Shadow www.etymonline.com/columns/post... underpants www.etymonline.com/columns/post...etymonline.comCinderella UndercoverThe imposition of modern senses onto an old word for shock value. 172
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Today's etymonline weather forecast and aria libretto. It opens mundane but comes to life midway. "Gauze philosophy." "Holy resilience!" Then the villain-name du jour, "Histamine Rigmarole." 173
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 27/08/2025thanks for the tip. Numbers are endless fun to sift and stack. Sometimes, very occasionally, you can stack them in ways that catch a glimpse of insight into the past. But they are deadly because the internet thinks everything is reducible to code. It is not. The important things are not. 110
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Today's Etymonline Weather Forecast and Poetry Slam Stage Name Generator (dibs on Resilient Doughnut) 020
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Today's Etymonline Weather Report and Wierdle Answers [must have been a quiz out there somewhere yesterday, involving place names in "-mouth." As for the rest of it, there's a "trending" trend for the last five or six words on the list to form a subplot of their own, occasionally whimsical]. 140
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 19/08/2025www.patreon.com/posts/cousin... English and French get along like step-sisters raised together. English and German are twins separated at birth. 070
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Today's Etymological Weather Report and Bridge Hand The top two cards offer devilish clever twists in the forked senses of "assumption." From about no. 5 to the end they begin to draw pairs. "Nice morning. Spooky culture. Gossip. Memoir." A casual chat or a life story in six words? 040
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 13/08/2025lol, of course there will be two American calendars. The parody writes itself. 040
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 13/08/2025heh. or Trumpuary (that 'yoo' face). But the shortest month? He'd slap that back. 220
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Keep it under your hat that Roman emperors also got whole months renamed after themselves. Once word is out that branding the calendar is the badge of a mighty ruler, brace yourself for Dontober. www.etymonline.com/word/august 66913
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Today's etymonline "trending words" weather report-slash-band-name-generator. Better jump on "Nifty Kamchatka" before it's taken. Sage advice at 4.-5. Current Events from 6. to the end, Punctuate at will, Gridley: 072
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Today's weather report-cum-beat poetry. More reliable than an n-gram! Punctuate as desired. 141
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 30/06/2025The case for "Gal."chicksonthecase.comFor Me and My GalsI love the word “gal” and use it quite a bit in my speech. So it came as a bit of a surprise to be told recently by a friend that she would never use the word. In fact, she said, she finds the use … 020
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Today's Weather Alert opens with thrums in the night 030
