My favourite thing about geese... is the etymologies of all the phrases relating to geese. There's so many, and they're all amazing. I started reading about one, then - silly goose that I am - found another, and another, and another...

For example:

Barnacle geese are so-called because

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Following the success of our last game of Dialect the previous month and once again in a one-week hiatus of our usual Friday Dungeons & Dragons game, I hosted a second remote game of this strange "soft" RPG with linguistics and improv drama elements.
Thieves' Cant
Our backdrop to this story

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This week our usual Dungeons & Dragons group took a week off while our DM recovered from a long and tiring week. As a "filler", I offered to facilitate a game of Dialect: A Game About Language and How It Dies, from Thorny Games, who I discovered through a Metafilter post about their latest

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