Mountains? More like NOTHINGS

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Most of the major newspapers (this is from a UK perspective but I’d imagine they’re accessible in other places) have a live news page for big developing news stories - the BBC site is probably a good unbiased-ish one

I’m a big fan of -ussy as a suffix, especially when it’s wildly unsuitable for the purpose

It’s utterly ruined ales describing themselves as “citrussy”

Hold the newsreader’s nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.

To use another from the very late 1900s

The years start comin’ and they don’t stop comin’

The Dollop

Particularly the 1908 New York Paris Car Race episode

An’t

I kept reading “tessellated”

Scunthorpe

Just never go to Scunthorpe

Though I just realised I’m a walking stereotype

No contest, just look at these guys

Terrible coffee

Ooh neat, think that’s from the same root as troth/betrothal in English too, proto German for truth & fidelity

I get that, but also, it’s always seemed like the purpose of the ring is to signify the state of being, so engagement ring to show the state of being engaged, wedding ring shows the state of being married, or wed, I guess it works both ways

Not a strongly held view by any means 😆

French as well - le bague de mariage

You couldn’t make Gone With the Wind today because everyone in it has died

Gotta be Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia

Had a little breakdown, quit a job I hated, started a business, got married. It’s been a wild ride