Today is another research roundup. A week after the last, so the list isn’t too long and thus this post won’t be either. Today is a day wherein success is measured by ‘I got done everything on my list, even if some of the list was small or fewer than I planned yesterday’, and blogging is still a measure of showing up each week, so I choose to count it.
The last week, as it turns out, was apparently a study in language. I made use of the etymologyoneline dictionary, searching for ‘romance’, and cross-referencing with Romany (and the people) which led me to Roman and tangentially Romish. It turns out, they don’t come from the same place at all.
I know there’s a word for that, but I couldn’t remember it (and still can’t, more’s the pity). But, at the time, I did look. Which led me to various pages searching. With a tangent whose path I no longer remember on the sometimes-accidental politics which arises from such similarities.
I also went for a frolic through flower language. I was almost certainly searching for something, for Reasons.
And a brief spellcheck to make sure I had the right word, because even writers need those (or perhaps especially writers need those). It turns out, my brain was still able to recognise that ‘angelisation’ is not the word I was looking for.
And that’s it for this week. Not exactly a romp, nor a trip through the circles of research hell. ‘Frolic’ remains the descriptive word for today’s roundup, I think.
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