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etymology - Etymological origin of deosil and widdershins - English . . . Widdershins is Scots word, predominately found in the Lowlands This oversimplifies a lot, and even from that oversimplification, there is nothing to say that a borrowing wouldn't have led to both being used by the same people (I grew up with a dialect with borrowings from both Irish and Ulster-Scots, so I certainly won't claim it doesn't
etymology - What did we say before clockwise? - English Language . . . The pairing of deosil and widdershins as antonyms is also modern, owing to their being commonly used in modern paganism Ironicallly, deosil is often explained to be "sunwise" and hence to mean counter-clockwise if you are in the southern hemisphere
Should anti- and counterclockwise be hyphenated? @pageman To tighten a screw, turn it deasel; to loosen, turn it widdershins I can't think of a sentence with "conditions" for either widdershins or counterclockwise They're adverbs, so nothing immediately jumps to mind I feel like I'm missing a joke Is that the case? –
meaning - Are the words snarky and smarmy a form of visual . . . 1911 O Onions Widdershins ix 265 It had been the usual thing twenty years ago—smarming about Art and the Arts And then smear, v Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English smir-, smyr-, smerian (also smir- , smerwan ), < smeoru, smeru smear n ,
What is Oki-doki or Oki-dokie or Okay-dokay Okay, since now we know what is the origin of OK (I like the Oll Korrect version), I have another question about it's relative: What is an "Oki-doki" or "Oki-dokie" or "Okay-dokay"?
single word requests - How do I express clockwisality? - English . . . Before there were round clocks the opposite direction (now "counterclockwise") was more prominent The word for that direction was widdershins The counterpart of "clockwise" is deasil See the Deixis Lectures for more on the subject –
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