Steve Hill
@thehilligan.bsky.social
Musician, Linguist, Local Historian, Tour Guide, Writer, Lifelong Wolves FC fan, Black Country & Western migrant. Architecture, Landscape Archaeology fan. Lover of tunes, texture, dialect, & taking the trouble.
He goes into "China" vocal delivery... we know, and so does he. SHE shd be saying "excuse me.."
April 27, 2026 at 1:30 AM
He goes into "China" vocal delivery... we know, and so does he. SHE shd be saying "excuse me.."
if you like a bit of language nerding, then may I suggest super geek Simon Roper on Youtube? also Gideon on Let Them Talk Tv, who, like me was an EFL teacher.
August 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
if you like a bit of language nerding, then may I suggest super geek Simon Roper on Youtube? also Gideon on Let Them Talk Tv, who, like me was an EFL teacher.
Yep, except torquere is the infinitive of the Latin verb. The meaning of the root is certainly to twist or turn, but that ending is a functional/grammatical one, not connected with meaning as such. Like "Reliquere"...from which relic/relict/relinquish, etc
August 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Yep, except torquere is the infinitive of the Latin verb. The meaning of the root is certainly to twist or turn, but that ending is a functional/grammatical one, not connected with meaning as such. Like "Reliquere"...from which relic/relict/relinquish, etc
yep-tho more directly & lately from a Germanic word, I think. "quer" in modern German. Words for turning/ twisting, inc "torc" seem to derive from words related to mod Welsh "troia", hence Troytowns..nowt to do with Greece..prob via Brythonic & Anglo Norman French. "Trendle" in Old/ Middle Eng.
August 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
yep-tho more directly & lately from a Germanic word, I think. "quer" in modern German. Words for turning/ twisting, inc "torc" seem to derive from words related to mod Welsh "troia", hence Troytowns..nowt to do with Greece..prob via Brythonic & Anglo Norman French. "Trendle" in Old/ Middle Eng.
Thanks. Makes sense. Otherwise why build massive eworks with a whopping, permanently accessible entrance....
August 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Thanks. Makes sense. Otherwise why build massive eworks with a whopping, permanently accessible entrance....
Do "we" have much recorded evidence for entrance types/morpholgy are they mostly likely to have been wooden constructions-which makes sense?
August 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Do "we" have much recorded evidence for entrance types/morpholgy are they mostly likely to have been wooden constructions-which makes sense?
Oh no! Stay safe. Hope you get through unscathed.
August 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Oh no! Stay safe. Hope you get through unscathed.
not really the point
August 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
not really the point
a seriously worrying guy
August 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
a seriously worrying guy
Reposted by Steve Hill
do they still exist, though?
August 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
do they still exist, though?
I am quite relaxed now-listening to Free at the Isle of Wight. Have a great eventide
August 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I am quite relaxed now-listening to Free at the Isle of Wight. Have a great eventide
and no unpleasant bending-as Viv Stanshall once said
August 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
and no unpleasant bending-as Viv Stanshall once said
you want context at this time of night? Ok, fair enough...
August 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
you want context at this time of night? Ok, fair enough...
Sedimentary, Watson!
August 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Sedimentary, Watson!
Just wld like to put a word in for Free & Thin Lizzy, for no reason whatsoever-except they are often ignored.
August 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Just wld like to put a word in for Free & Thin Lizzy, for no reason whatsoever-except they are often ignored.
Not "classic rock"
August 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Not "classic rock"
there was a lot of great music in the 80s & 90s..but it wasn`t "classic rock"..tho some of it was "rock"
August 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
there was a lot of great music in the 80s & 90s..but it wasn`t "classic rock"..tho some of it was "rock"
The Sex Pistols were a boy band, btw. Ask Malcolm McLaren-oh, hang on..
August 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The Sex Pistols were a boy band, btw. Ask Malcolm McLaren-oh, hang on..
er..nothing to do with "elites". what is with this obsession with "elites" FFS.
August 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
er..nothing to do with "elites". what is with this obsession with "elites" FFS.