piffle
verb
piffled; piffling
intransitive verb
: to talk or act in a trivial, inept, or ineffective way
noun
: trivial nonsense
pseudo-scientific piffle

Word of the week: Groceries

Nancy Friedman

"_Grocery is derived from grocer, “a wholesale dealer or merchant,” which entered English in the early 1400s from French, where it was spelled grossier._"

https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/word-of-the-week-groceries

**Viking**

Wordorigins.org

“_Not only did viking helmets not have horns, the Norse people who sailed about the northern world were more likely to be peaceful merchants and traders than plundering raiders and pirates. Viking was an occupation, and an occasional gig at that, not an ethnic identity._”

https://wordorigins-org.ghost.io/viking/

#Writers and #readers: I’m trying to recall a specific term I learned when I was eleven years old. It refers to text-based #wordplay that conveys a #word, phrase, or concept.

For example, “lines reading lines” is recognized as the phrase, “Reading between the lines”. I’ve included some illustrative examples below. What is the English name of this idea? #thankyou

I just found my favourite word in Japanese: "Tsundoku".

Des pros de l' #édition ici qui utilisent des logiciels de #correction open source et/ou qu'on peut acheter (et pas louer) ?

J'ai acheté #prolexis au prix fort il y a 3-4 ans en me disant que ça allait me durer, mais il n'est pas compatible avec la dernière mise à jour automatique de #Word, il faut passer à l'abonnement.

J'hésite à désactiver les mises à jour du pack office pour le garder mais je crains que sur le moyen terme cela ne m'ajoute des problèmes, je préférerais donc trouver un autre logiciel de correction.

EDIT : mon prolexis fonctionne toujours avec libreoffice (dont je viens de désactiver les màj), je peux donc l'utiliser dans LO puis rouvrir le fichier sous Word pour travailler dessus. (Mais je suis toujours à l'écoute d'autres logiciels au cas où ce bricolage ne tienne pas.)

Des pros de l' #édition ici qui utilisent des logiciels de #correction open source et/ou qu'on peut acheter (et pas louer) ?

J'ai acheté #prolexis au prix fort il y a 3-4 ans en me disant que ça allait me durer, mais il n'est pas compatible avec la dernière mise à jour automatique de #Word, il faut passer à l'abonnement.

J'hésite à désactiver les mises à jour du pack office pour le garder mais je crains que sur le moyen terme cela ne m'ajoute des problèmes, je préférerais donc trouver un autre logiciel de correction.

The #Cult of #Comfortability

It’s on the rise in #realityshows and #sportsheadlines and #ArianaGrande’s vocabulary. Where did this #word come from—and why does it drive people so crazy?

https://slate.com/culture/2025/03/comfortability-tiktok-ariana-grande-bachelorette-reality-tv.html

Another #wtfMicrosoft moment, as I just fruitlessly spent a good 30 minutes trying to create a #Microsoft #Word .docx document from a non-default .dotx template in the web version of Word.

Apparently this can't be done without using the Desktop version, which isn't going to help me on my Linux machine:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/opening-dotx-files-on-onedrive/fdf30a36-2f7c-4455-90b0-67af1967ceee

Also tried editing the template directly, but the online version won't do that either:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/cannot-edit-word-template-file-dotx-on-word-365/b27b2163-b97f-4ec4-be1f-e41ac04e40af

What a load of useless, time wasting crap!

Thanks for the lengthy unsolicited lecture, random stranger. I'm sure it was very informative. Unfortunately, because #every #other #word was a hashtag for some reason, it read as if it were words cut out of magazine headlines for a ransom note, and I couldn't really derive much meaning from it.

I've been an #editor for many years, and I still learn new things about #editing and #Microsoft #Word all the time. This one's from my colleague Adrienne Montgomerie: "Shrink #Files by Deleting Unused #Styles." Go read her helpful post! https://eiw365.com/shrink-files-by-deleting-unused-styles/

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is "tousle" https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2025/02/23/ #word

Meine ersten Eindrücke nach dem kompletten Umstieg von Windows auf Linux Mint: So ziemlich alle Ängste, die ich vorher hatte, waren unbegründet.

Alles läuft prima, ist klar und easy. (Mag sein, dass es damit zusammenhängt, dass ich mich in den letzten zwei Jahren verstärkt mit dem Bereich IT befasst und auch schon mit Linux herumprobiert habe.) 1/2

**Learning A New Word**

Courtesy of DOGE and reporters, today I learnt a new word: **unfire**. According to Wiktionary, it means: '_To hire again (a person who was fired)_'. The single quotation for its use in the free dictionary comes from the Spider-Man 2 film [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unfire].

I've taken my "Much Love Grows On Trees" and made it Rooted In Kindness: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/rooted-in-kindness-love-art-sharon-cummings.html

I was sent an unusable #word document and once again...I truly loathe #microsoft

I'm using Dark Mode. The document has colors that are unreadable.

They aren't text color/highlights

They aren't paragraph color/highlights

They aren't table color/highlights

They aren't style color/highlights

WHERE ARE THE COLORS COMING FROM

WHY CAN"T YOU JUST FUCKING SHOW ME THE FORMATTING

Fixed your meme

#WordOfTheDay - thing I learned today

A Gull is "A deliberately engineered shimmy in a watercourse to overcome unstable soil conditions
and/or repair a bank collapse"

From https://www.fensbiosphere.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/glossary-of-fenland-land-drainage-terms-2013-v2-draft.pdf