Will I understand The XMen if I haven't seen The Omen?

HISTORICAL FACT: Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn was tried and found guilty of treason. However, her brother Wom was found not guilty so went free.

How can these both be headlines today and neither are about Will Smith?

okay so a neat thing about QUENCH is that it's an extant causative form of a word that no longer exists in English!

Here's something about English that amazes me: TH at the beginning of a word (typically) stands for one of two sounds: /θ/ as in 'thin' or /ð/ as in 'this'. The difference works according to what type of word it is: lexical TH words start with /θ/, functional TH words with /ð/!

12 websites that've helped* me immensely as a writer🧵 *like i can't function without some of them

The final dance in Dirty Dancing, but they’re dancing to The Muppet Show theme tune.

Latest (quite funny) craze at my son’s school: ask Amazon Alexa to say “Boris Johnson coffee beans 100” in Welsh.

Say it ain't so Where did you go Where'd ya come from Cotton Eyed Joe Na na na na na na na na na na

and I’m here, to remind you of the grass you left when you went away… 😂

This may, in fact, be the best diagram on the internet #pragmatics

If she subpoenas Colada, she'll be caught and arraigned.

Surely the main difference between them is that, while we don't talk about one, we need to talk about the other.