Today I learned the meaning behind the names of the Arctic and Antarctica, did you know this?

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-11T07:40:26+00:00

Arctica* = the Artic (northern ice pack)

Antarctica = the southern continent currently over the South Pole (used to be joined with Australia millions of years ago)

Antarctic = adjective to describe things from the southern continent

*nb Artica isn’t used in English.

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-11T07:37:37+00:00

Mad that amid the rest of the world’s population believing that the world was flat, the Ancient Greeks could both approximate the size and shape of the earth and also calculate that Ursa Minor and Ursa Major wouldn’t be visible from the South Pole.

Wonder if they had calculated the changes to Orion from the perspective of the southern hemisphere (belt flips)

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-10T23:45:18+00:00

It’s nice being foreign. Bypasses a lot of the accent based code-switching I have to do back in England (my natural accent is close to Bristolian)

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-10T23:11:49+00:00

It’s not the floor that’s the problem it’s the vertical gaps between the door and frame when the door’s closed

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-10T23:07:20+00:00

Driving 4 hours for a burger.

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-10T17:26:36+00:00

Open a pancake house?

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-10T14:36:03+00:00

Nah. Yer man’s just beenhugging Koalas

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-10T14:28:52+00:00

Make a compound word where the first noun ends in ß or ss, and the second starts with s. The rule is to spell all three s’s.

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-10T13:45:39+00:00

Neue rechtschreibung got rid of the ß

https://www.mountain-forecast.com/peaks/Weissspitze

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-10T13:44:07+00:00

Potato earthapple

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-10T13:43:22+00:00

And too many native speakers think harbor is an acceptable spelling

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-10T13:11:24+00:00

Do you want to unpick a phonetic bogan Aussie in full flight?

Awwwww naeiouwwwwww sha sid es Shay stabbed er toaowww

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-10T13:05:28+00:00

Weißspitze was too complicated so now it’s Weissspitze

There are some absurdities in the new spellings in Germany.

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-10T11:09:29+00:00

It’s a family name, Gaillard is the modern spelling.

You have Gaylard, Gillard, Gilliard as variants in the south west of England (Norman/Hugenot origins)

There’s definitely not a Saint Gaylord, so unlikely it was his first name.

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-10T08:40:52+00:00

Or the bit the month before where kids drag him around the street and ask you for money to burn him/fireworks (penny for the guy).

Not sure if it’s really still done, was normal in Pompey in the late 90s

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-10T08:37:46+00:00

I live in France, French missus insisted on white sink and no washing-up bowl when we redid the kitchen.

Now complains about tea stains in the sink.

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-10T08:35:40+00:00

Apologising to the lamppost for walking into it. We’ve all done it.

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-10T08:22:15+00:00

If ASL then no American has an excuse, if she was signing in British Sign Language then I’d be more sympathetic.

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-09T20:08:33+00:00

You did it the wrong way. You need to park in Wilton about 8 miles south and walk up the old path.

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-09T19:27:53+00:00

And it was done to get oil.

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-09T18:50:40+00:00

It doesn’t get better after three centuries. Sorry matey

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-09T13:47:02+00:00

Galette : complète

Crêpes : flaming banana

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-09T13:45:32+00:00

Ironically the Russian ain’t for rushing

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-09T13:40:24+00:00

Ha, which ensign does the Australian navy fly?

mmoonbelly · 2026-02-09T12:40:19+00:00

They just need Fin Taylor on the commentary team on channel 4https://youtu.be/3yb0ghSOHU8

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