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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

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Everything you never wanted to know about Tallinn. Esimene täielik Tallinna tänavanimede sõnastik pärast Aleksander Kivise "Tallinna tänavad". Parandused ja tagasiside teretulnud. For a more light-hearted 'analysis' of the French language, see @frogologue

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Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 6m

The news is that anybody should be surprised that this is actually news…

M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 49m

America Would Be So Much Better
Off Without RepubliKKKans of Any
Age.......

Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 1h

See ei pruugi siin kehtida, aga minu 'lemmiktehnikainfo' oli see, et mu rong hilines tehniliste probleemide tõttu. Kui rong lõpuks lahkus, kõndis konduktor vagunite vahel ja vabandas, et see oli tema süü: ta ei kuulnud oma alarmi. Minu baasskepsis tõusis sel päeval ühe punkti võrra.

Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 1h

#Versta (Verst)
#Tallinn #Nõmme
#Russian #distance, about 1 km (1.067 to be exact). New street name (2008) which looks like an unfinished footpath. Named for the station known as #SeitsmesVerst (7th verst), its distance from #BaltiJaam on the line to #Paldiski, and renamed as #Nõmme in 1874.

Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 2h

Pretty sure I saw it having a comeback in the US somewhere...

Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 4h

#Rukkilille (Rukkilill)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Mähe #Aedlinn
#Cornflower (lit. rye flower), bachelor’s button, bluebottle... #CentaureaCyanus, #Estonia’s national flower. Once considered a weed in cornfields where the latter was once a generic term for any field containing corn, rye, wheat, etc.

Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 13h

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Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 15h

#Paekivi (Paekivi)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Sikupilli
#Limestone, #flagstone. One of a rock-based neighborhood. Synonym of #Pae. See #Pallasti.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Geology #Geoloogia
#Lubjakivi
#Rock #Kivi

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FEISTY😈 @crzyfkinworld.bsky.social · 20h

‘Where do bad rainbows go? To prism. It's a light sentence, but it gives them time to reflect.’

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Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 1d

Just so we’re clear…

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 18h

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Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 18h

#Linnamäe (Linnamägi)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Kuristiku #Priisle
#Hillfort. Named for pointing towards the #Iru hillfort, a #BronzeAge settlement dating back some 4000-5000 years and suggested to be #Kalevipoeg’s birthplace.

#Archaeology #Arheoloogia
#Prehistory #Eelajalugu
#Mythology #Mütoloogia

Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 20h

from a perhaps late-19th C spread of international #zoological #nomenclature. I could look it up, but do you really want me to? Family includes #BistonBetularia of #English ‘pollution as evolutionary agent’ fame. Part of a lepidopteran group. See also #Villkäpa.

#Nature #Loodus
#Insect #Putukas
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Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 20h

#inchworms are incapable of such refinement), and a mile-long list of other names all imply a similar notion. The interesting point about all this is we (I) still don’t know whether the name is due to obvious (i.e. simply observing their typical looping gait) #convergent naming, or
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Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 20h

#Japanese (shakutorimushi [katakana: シャクトリムシ, kanji: 尺取虫], the ‘shaku taking bug’, #shaku being an archaic [officially out in 1966 but said still to be used in carpentry...] Japanese measure equal to 10/33 m, or about 30.3 cm, or the average distance between two nodes of bamboo, although most
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Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 20h

(lit. land-measurer), #English (looper, spanworm or inchworm), #French (chenille arpenteuse, lit. measurer, surveyor or geometer caterpillar), #Swedish (Mätarlarv, lit. measuring-larva), #Hungarian (Araszolóhernyók from a) arasz, span ; b) oló, an ‘-ing’ ending: and c) hernyók, caterpillars),
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Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 20h

#Vaksiku (Vaksik)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
#Looper, #caterpillar (and adult) of the #Geometer moths. Bit complicated this one: #vaksik comes from #vaks, a span. So possibly a translation from #German, #Spanner (word also used for shoe-trees and peeping-toms). But since the name in #Latin
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Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 23h

a popular chap). The story that when he attempted to use the method to commit #suicide, failed, and had to have himself run through by his bodyguard, a double irony to say the least, is almost certainly #apocryphal. One of a group of berry streets in #Lilleküla District. See also #Maasika.
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Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 23h

from #Corinth, #copper from #Cyprus, etc.). Reputedly brought back to #Rome by #Lucullus after the #ThirdMithridaticWar. This was the #Mithridates (No.IV) who gave his name to ‘Mithridatism’ for plying his body with small doses of #poison to protect himself from assassination attempts (obviously
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Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 23h

#Kirsi (Kirss)
#Tallinn #Kristiine #Lilleküla #Mooni
#Cherry. Name ultimately derives from an ancient #Turkish city/peninsula whence the first cherries were exported, known to the #Greeks as #Κερασοῦς (Kerasous), hence #French cerise, #German Kirsche, etc., (the same principle gave us #currants
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Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 1d

#Vikerkaare (Vikerkaar)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla
#Rainbow.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Celestial #Taevalik

Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 1d

And quite a few of their girlfriends too.

LStewartSC @lstewartsc.bsky.social · 1d

Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 1d

#Viimsi (Viimsi)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
Name of a small borough and manor house (#German: #Wiems) located a few km E of Tallinn, first mentioned in 1471. Settlements date back to late #BronzeAge.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#ManorHouse #Mõis

Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me about it: I live in France - land of bicycles!

Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 1d

The expressoin on Meloni's face!

Guillem #FreePalestine🇯🇴 @guillemcristo.bsky.social · 1d

Que mal día para Núñez Feijóo y Santi Abascal.
Que mal día para los fachas del PP y VOX que aseguraban QUE Pedro Sánchez no estaba en la fotografía.

Traducción:
"¿Dónde está España? Nos acercaremos con el PIB. Estáis haciendo un gran trabajo"

Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 1d

You forgot having to stand on line leg, blindfold 🥴

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