Susan Baddeley
@sbaddeley.bsky.social
Words, words, words..... From Newcastle, linguist and translator, researcher into 16th-century French-English cultural exchanges.
In the north of England (Tyneside) in the early 1970s it used to go: "Jingle Bells, Batman smells / Robin's broke [sic] his leg / The Batmobile's only got three wheels / And the Penguin's laid an egg"
December 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
In the north of England (Tyneside) in the early 1970s it used to go: "Jingle Bells, Batman smells / Robin's broke [sic] his leg / The Batmobile's only got three wheels / And the Penguin's laid an egg"
There's 'short', and then there's 14 hours
October 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
There's 'short', and then there's 14 hours
Daniel Bellingradt, it looks like you do 😁
September 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Daniel Bellingradt, it looks like you do 😁
(I have to admit I hadn't noticed it before)
September 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
(I have to admit I hadn't noticed it before)
I'd imagine it was used to keep the damp sheets of paper uniformly damp. In this picture (from Hornschuh's Orthotypographia) the guy to the right of the one standing up with the long cloak, seems to have a similar set-up, with two boards and some kind of block on top.
September 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I'd imagine it was used to keep the damp sheets of paper uniformly damp. In this picture (from Hornschuh's Orthotypographia) the guy to the right of the one standing up with the long cloak, seems to have a similar set-up, with two boards and some kind of block on top.
Are we sure Grok translated it accurately?
September 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Are we sure Grok translated it accurately?