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._”
#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
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:
Also tried editing the template directly, but the online version won't do that either:
What a load of useless, time wasting crap!
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
Aha. They've made some regions of the documented restricted. So #Word is helpfully highlighting the editable areas that I can edit in a color that hides the text.
You can disable highlighting by going to "the Developer tab and..."
Needless to say, there's no Developer tab.
#Microsoft, you...I just can't find words to describe how much I hate you.
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
#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"
#English #language question: I am looking for a striking and catchy #word for an 'on many levels failed state'.
In school, we learned "banana republic" but this comes from colonial thinking and the state is not quite a republic.
Puns are also welcome if you explain them to me (English is a foreign language for me).
And because I like languages: you can also write me words from different languages.
