Yet another set of 4s that have been bouncing around the bottom few cardboxen ( Read more... )

ESTRANGE: keep away
ASTRINGE: bring together

Not-quite-antonyms with the same back hooks: DSR (ASTRINGER#)

Some more words and hooks that compete with each other for brain space - so once again, I'm forced to take the extreme step of learning what they mean!

HOUF#, HOUFF#, HOWF, HOWFF - As far as I can tell, it means 'haunt'
HAUF# - half (with a scottish accent)
HAFF# - one of several freshwater lagoons on the coast of the baltic sea - like this one:

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NOWL# (or noll, nole, noul, noule) - means noggin - apparently ( Read more... )

5 spellings for the same word ( polyorths? ) In the order in which I learned them:

DEASOIL#
DEISEAL#
DEASIUL#
DEISHEAL#
DEASIL

Caol le caol agus leathan le leathan. I've known this rule since whenever I started learning to spell polysyllabic words in Irish. It's second nature now, just like "i before e except after c". I never thought to ask why, but ( Read more... )

Diabolo.ca 2 diabolo high tutorial:
"don't even try and learn 2 high where there is ANY wind at all" 
Easier said than done - the pattern is 20 feet high!

Juggling practice tonight indoors for the first time since I started properly working on 2-high - will see what difference the lack of wind makes.

PS learning about the physics of diabolo recently ( Read more... )

There are several sets of words in my cardbox which I conflate.  One such set is:

FROW
VROW
VROU#
VROUW
Happily, these should be easy to remember once I've learned what they mean.

FROW is a simple noun, it's a 'cleaving tool, pictured on the left here:

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