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50+ Music<p>"Sumer is icumen in" is the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/incipit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>incipit</span></a> of a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/medievalEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medievalEnglish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/round" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>round</span></a> or rota of the mid-13th century; it is also known variously as the Summer Canon and the Cuckoo Song. The line translates approximately to "Summer has come" or "Summer has arrived". The song is written in the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WessexDialect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WessexDialect</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MiddleEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEnglish</span></a>. Although the composer's identity is unknown today, it may have been <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WDeWycombe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WDeWycombe</span></a> or a monk at <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ReadingAbbey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReadingAbbey</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JohnOfFornsete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnOfFornsete</span></a>. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euY8I41eTY8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=euY8I41eTY8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Mark Darbyshire<p>Grandma used the word “whatsome” a lot. I've never heard anyone else say it. I often wonder where it came from.</p><p>Curiously, the Oxford Dictionary defines it as an obsolete <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MiddleEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEnglish</span></a> word meaning “whatever” that hasn't been used in over 500 years. </p><p>“Whatsome” was Grandma's “whatchamacallit”. She could also say “and whatsome” in the sense of “and so on”.</p><p>Incidentally, Oxford recognises “whatsomever” as a surviving <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dialect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dialect</span></a> word.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoricalLinguistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Etymology</span></a></p>
50+ Music<p>"Sumer is icumen in" is the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/incipit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>incipit</span></a> of a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/medievalEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medievalEnglish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/round" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>round</span></a> or rota of the mid-13th century; it is also known variously as the Summer Canon and the Cuckoo Song. The line translates approximately to "Summer has come" or "Summer has arrived". The song is written in the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WessexDialect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WessexDialect</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MiddleEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEnglish</span></a>. Although the composer's identity is unknown today, it may have been <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WDeWycombe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WDeWycombe</span></a> or a monk at <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ReadingAbbey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReadingAbbey</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JohnOfFornsete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnOfFornsete</span></a>. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0jIB2HAwwA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=f0jIB2HAww</span><span class="invisible">A</span></a></p>
Gurre Vildskägg<p>Wednesday today.<br>But everyone says Wensday. <br>1. Who will dare start spelling it the modern phonetic way?<br>2. When did people start saying Wensday instead of Wednesday? </p><p>I see the Old English was Wōdnesdæg<br>and Middle English was Wednesdei</p><p>But when did people stop pronouncing the d in Wedn-?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/OldEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OldEnglish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/MiddleEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEnglish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/SilentLetters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilentLetters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/Wednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wednesday</span></a></p>
egyp7<p>Today I learned "handiwork" isn't derived from "handy work". It's from old English where a prefix was used to add a sense of something completed. So "iwerk" was completed work, and handiwork is work accomplished by hand.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>etymology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oldEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oldEnglish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/middleEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>middleEnglish</span></a></p>
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