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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 8 days ago • 1065 comments

The borrowing of words into Old Irish: part 1 Old Irish póc 'kiss' / Modern Irish póg 'kiss' Probably a loanword from the Latin phrase ōsculum pācis (kiss of peace), entering Old Irish via a Brittonic language. Happy Valentine's day!

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

For the saint that's in it today, the etymology of the name "Brigit": Modern Irish Bríd [ˈbʲrʲiːdʲ] < pre-reform Irish Brighid < Old Irish Brigit [ˈbʲrʲiɣʲədʲ] < Primitive Irish *Brigēddī [ˈbriɣɛːdːiː] < Proto-Celtic *Brigantī < Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥g̑ʰn̥tih₂- "high one, elevated one (fem.)". /1

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

movieweb.com/new-celtic-f... Excited to see this.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

A professor was lecturing to his English class: “In English, a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, a double negative is still a negative. However, there's no language where in a double positive can form a negative.” A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”

submitted 29 days ago • 81 comments

#FindsFriday The extraordinary Late Bronze/Early Iron Age Bronze cauldron from Llyn Fawr votive lake 🧙, Rhigos, south Wales, dating from 700 BC Pulled from the mud & peat of the drained lake during reservoir construction 🌊 Now on display at Amgueddfa Cymru/Museum Wales, St Fagans 📷 Yesterday

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And tons of people don’t even know this movie exists. Which is unfortunate. #Horror #HorrorSky #HorrorMovies #Lovecraft #Cthulhu www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

submitted 43 days ago • 28 comments

The Durotriges An Iron Age people with women at the centre of power, kinship and land ownership A great report on our joint @tcddublin.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social research project by @spoke32.bsky.social in @science.org 😊👍 www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 41 days ago • 23 comments

How to make home made charcoal: Step 1. Put dinner in the oven. Step 2. Quickly just check one thing on the Internet.

submitted 42 days ago • 100 comments

Matrilocality in Iron Age South-West Britain? Interesting paper; lots to digest and think about.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

@carolinedebenh1.bsky.social I have been enjoying your posts about great beers. Several days ago it looked like you were touring Belgium. Was that your own itinerary?

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

So this is an interesting article. From the Conclusion: "The precursors of Italic and Celtic, as well as Lusitanian, were possibly mediated by the Bell Beaker population that genetically formed in Central Europe." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

I feel like I have to apologize to everyone who follows me because I never post anything. In fact, this may be my first post that isn’t just a response to someone else’s.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments