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11 Weirdly Spelled Words and How They Got That Way →

3. Wednesday
Woden was an Anglo-Saxon god associated with both fury and poetic inspiration. He also had a career in curing horses and carrying off the dead, and Wednesday is his day. Woden’s day has gone through various spellings—wodnesdaeg, Weodnesdei, Wenysday, wonysday, Weddinsday—but even though Shakespeare tried to match pronunciation with his very reasonable “Wensday,” it didn’t stick. Woden got to keep his ‘d’ and his day.

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"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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Condescending literary pun dog

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Guess who just received Frank McCourt’s Teacher Man in the mail!? This girl! Ahh, fits perfectly doesn’t it?

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"He might have been naïve, but he didn’t care; he said he’d rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic."

Let the Great World Spin- Colum McCann

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"Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That’s why they became evil. That’s why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn’t matter - it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for."

Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann

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I used to love this book.

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