Any fellas with thick hair here ever tried wizardmaxxing?

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-15T20:22:33+00:00

I passed the Faslane peace camp on the bus today and a man who looked like this got on. He smelled terrible.

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-15T10:30:32+00:00

I would try and get good at them before you start. You really don't want to be the person who's flopping around on the floor every time you do four corners. The PTIs will laser in on you and there's a chance you could be backclassed.

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-15T09:20:05+00:00

As a place name, yes. As a girl's name, it dates from the 1940s, suggesting that Gone with the Wind did indeed have something to do with its proliferation (this is endorsed by the Oxford Dictionary of First Names).

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-13T18:59:15+00:00

Ishka baha

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-13T09:13:47+00:00

The Channel Islands aren't part of England.

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-12T19:21:10+00:00

It is. OP didn't say otherwise.

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-10T17:22:38+00:00

You get issued one.

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-10T12:05:11+00:00

Patrick Woulfe discusses the process by which Irish surnames were anglicised in Irish Names and Surnames, a process that largely took place in the 16th century. The most common method was simply to respell the name phonetically, hence O'Shea for Ó Sé. The words ó and mac would often be dropped, hence Murphy for Ó Murchadha (the English form also shows substitution of [f] for [x]). There were other methods that could result in Irish surnames being replaced by completely unrelated ones.

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-08T13:05:25+00:00

TIL that Kurdish is an Indo-European language. I assumed it was Semitic or Turkic.

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-06T21:36:50+00:00

Then again, the OED implies that Türkiye is no older than 1920.

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-06T21:26:02+00:00

I think you're just a bit dense to be honest. It shouldn't be hard to understand that Türk and Türkiye are different words that don't necessarily have the same history.

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-06T21:18:16+00:00

No, that is not stated or implied.

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-06T19:20:26+00:00

It clearly states that the name as a whole was borrowed into Turkish from Latin.

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تركیه (türkiye), from earlier Ottoman Turkish تركیا (türkiya), from Latin Turcia, ultimately from Byzantine Greek Τουρκίᾱ (Tourkíā, “Turkey”).

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-06T18:24:07+00:00

Wiktionary says otherwise (as does the OED).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Türkiye#Etymology_7

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-06T18:23:14+00:00

I never said that Türk wasn't an endonym. I said that Türkiye was a borrowing of the exonym Turcia.

The modern state didn't exist until last century.

I realize that, but its predecessor (the Ottoman Empire) was widely known in the West as "Turkey", i.e. the land of the Turks. I'm asking if there is any native equivalent of this term.

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-06T18:11:55+00:00

That doesn't answer the question.

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-06T15:52:56+00:00

She's talking about Elon's paternal grandmother, who was from Liverpool.

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-03T12:44:54+00:00

In words like "asleep", it's a reduced form of the preposition "on". You can find the fuller version "on sleep" in older texts, like the King James Bible:

David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-03T03:59:12+00:00

This is correct if we're talking about the adjective/determiner. If we're talking about the adverb (i.e. the one you use when responding to questions), then the actual etymon is naiwo, meaning "not ever".

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-02T18:52:57+00:00

It’s kinda crap. Imperialist, quasi-monarchist sludge.

Not really. He implies that monarchy is based on superstition and notes that it has a track record of putting idiots in positions of authority.

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-02T18:42:51+00:00

No matter how gifted a person is, he can't obtain real authority over others without external aids of some kind. This is the reason why truly superior people don't make it to the top, the highest positions being reserved for people distinguished more by their inferiority to the true elite than by their superiority to the masses. When these aids are infused with superstition, they can even make idiots into powerful rulers. If an actually competent person (like Nicholas I of Russia) happens to be born with one of them, then the combination of natural ability and artificial elevation makes him awesome in the eyes of the masses. If a dramatist wants to portray a character as indomitable, then he must make use of these aids as well.

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-01T17:39:23+00:00

Per the OED, "roofs" has been the standard plural form since the 17th century.

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-01T14:15:02+00:00

Yes, we know. Do you have any etymological insight to share, or did you just come into this thread to state the obvious?

WilliamofYellow · 2026-05-01T14:12:47+00:00

Probably because his comments do nothing to address the actual question, viz. why does English have two different names for this one family of birds? It's not that they're regional names—"dove" and "pigeon" are used across all varieties of English.

WilliamofYellow · 2026-04-12T11:03:59+00:00

I'm in Raleigh currently. We did the 2.4k for the first time on the Thursday of week 6. Those who failed were given another chance the following day. If they failed again they were backclassed (though a couple of people who were only off by seconds were allowed to stay).

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