This picture has absolutely nothing to do with this week's word, but I rather like it. It was taken at our local Christmas tree farm.I'm quietly celebrating as yesterday I pushed over the 50,000 word mark for my NaNoWriMo. I have yet to validate it, but I'm quite pleased with myself, here were times I thought I'd 'Lost The Plot, but I managed to make up a nine thousand word deficit in two days, and the it all seemed to come together. Anyway, here is my gleaning from Michael Quinion's 'World Wide Words' site.
"TWINING A minor lexicographical result of the devastating floods in Cumbria last week has been the appearance in at least two UK national newspapers of the dialect word TWINE, to complain or whine ("Cumbrians are a unique breed. They say what they see. They are hands-on people. They will twine and moan but then they will just get on with it." - Metro, 23 November).
It was at one time widely known throughout Scotland and the north of England. By way of
another of its senses, to be fretful, ailing or sickly, it may be connected with "dwine", another dialect word, to pine or waste away, which is from an ancient Scandinavian source."
*World Wide Words is copyright (c) Michael Quinion 2009. All rights reserved. The Words Web site is at http://www.worldwidewords.org
Whoohoo! Congrats on the NaNo win!
ReplyDeleteI was in a big last-push NaNo write-in yesterday. We've been meeting every week all month long. One of our regulars showed up just long enough to receive his ovation and bounce away. It was fun.
Congratulations on NaNo!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Alice, isn't it just the greatest feeling to have achieved this! It's a great motivator, I know I wouldn't be past the fifth chapter of my new novel if I hadn't done it this way. It usually takes me a year to write a book!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea to put your certificate up on your blog. Hope you don't mind if I nick your idea! Congrats again and let us know when it's published.
Thanks so much Sheila!
ReplyDeleteI'm twining, I think! Ha!
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