Medievalists.net<p>From Churl to Cur - here are ten medieval insults! <a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/10-medieval-insults/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">medievalists.net/2024/12/10-me</span><span class="invisible">dieval-insults/</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/insults" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>insults</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medieval</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Englishlanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Englishlanguage</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/badwords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>badwords</span></a></p>
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Dr. Holly Walters<p>I was recently reading a paper on folk/false etymologies (also sometimes called backronyms), and given the proliferation of them I have seen in terms of politicized language policing online lately, I have some thoughts! (A Thread 🧵 about Language Use)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Anthro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anthro</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BadWords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BadWords</span></a></p>
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