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  This time of year it is such a delight to see the return of familiar flowers. First returners this week: comfrey and wild carrot. #wildflowerHour #wildflowers

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  @FourT4@mastodonapp.uk Simples division of labour ?

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  Glad that we got a clear, sunny afternoon today. Near the edge of a golf course near Studland there's a little colony of native wild daffodils, many of which (as in this photo) are double forms. #etymology note for those interested in such matters: "daffodil" comes by a circuitous route from Ancient Greek "asphodel", which in modern languages now refers to some rather different species. #WildflowerHour #wildflowers #Dorset

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  @johnnyd_cm@mastodonapp.uk Do try your worst!

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  @johnnyd_cm@mastodonapp.uk Good one

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  @_thegeoff@mastodon.social And what's making each “tap”? Some kind of vibrator?

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  @_thegeoff@mastodon.social What kind of stirrer?

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  @GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk Yeah you should definitely go for it 😃

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  @_GatoLoco_@mamot.fr Oh, ou sont-ils?

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  @botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org @petersketch@toot.wales Thanks, ya live and learn!

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  @botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org @petersketch@toot.wales Is hairiness not relevant?

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  @Indigo@appdot.net Is that a cowslip in there? (lower left?

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  @dmbaturin@functional.cafe Yes, correct: the Norman-French loanwords in English are generally “learnèd” e.g. courtly/posh, legalese, scientific, and/or more specialized, whereas the words inherited from Anglo-Saxon are generally more ordinary, colloquial, streetwise, sometimes vulgar, acquired earlier in life, and used more frequently.

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  Blackthorn, I think (the sepals clasping the petals, rather than curling away from them) #WildflowerHour #wildflowers

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  In case anyone needs a picture of some woolly Mangalica pigs right now. They're far too friendly

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  @teamtoot@toot.wales Seen quite recently in Dorset, land of the Durotriges tribe

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  @stfn@fedi.stfn.pl OnePlus 6 or 6T are pretty cheap on eBay. #PostmarketOS works pretty well, or at least usefully, on them

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  @kerbach2@lingo.lol Language Language and Speech Journal of Linguistics

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  @joyce@hcommons.social “British” will include Scottish English speakers, many of whom DO make that distinction, whereas most other British English speakers don't make that distinction

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  Cladonia floerkeana (Devil's Matchsticks) on Slepe Heath this afternoon. Each stalk was no more than 1 cm #lichenSubscribe #lichen #wildlife #macroPhotography

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  @ilookloud@retro.pizza A definitive article is Hoffman's article https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/avestan-language/avestan-language-ii-the-phonology-of-avestan/ Or by “sources” did you mean Avestan texts in transliteration? (can't help with that, I'm afraid)

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  @rbreich@masto.ai So from the UK (where I am not that keen on monarchy at all), the whole US "no kings" thing seems totally anachronistic actually, since most places with kings have made them no more powerful than flags. A better campaign slogan, imho, would be be just "no dictators", right?

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  @deepmud@mas.to Is that near a golf course too? 😉️

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  These Cladonia lichen always remind me of golf tees. Ironically, these ones were beside a path that crosses a local golf course. Is that where they grow them? #LichenSubscribe #Dorset

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  @yvanspijk@toot.community Thank you for that explanation, yes!

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  @Richard_Littler@mastodon.social Buried “time capsule”?

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  @sharongascoigne@mastodonapp.uk A beautiful lamp!

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  @LevZadov@kolektiva.social Appreciate it. If he were on here we could have a good chat about it. But I don't Google/Youtube/Alphabet

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  Lesser celandines starting to flower in Dorset this week, glossy yellow like buttercups (which are closely related). Different number of petals on these two. #WildflowerHour #wildflowers

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  @wild1145@mastodonapp.uk Post is tested. Repeat: post is tested