Mildly interesting
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Wild mammals are just 4% of the total.
It’s always something.
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He’s the biggest sports star in the world. What do you expect?
It’s always something.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
He’s the biggest sports star in the world. What do you expect?
Yeah, but $789 to watch Inter-Miami? It's like the elephants graveyard for great footballers.
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In 1990-91 I was working in Miami. You could walk in 2 minutes before any Miami Heat game and get great tickets.
Except when Jordan and the Bulls were in town. That sold out immediately.
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@mark said in Mildly interesting:
What about Dogs and Cats? Why are Buffalo not classified "wild"?
Those were my questions as well…
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"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gruntle
Which Came First, gruntle or disgruntle?
The verb disgruntle, which has been around since 1682, means "to make ill-humored or discontented." The prefix dis- often means "to do the opposite of," so people might naturally assume that if there is a disgruntle, there must have first been a gruntle with exactly the opposite meaning. But dis- doesn't always work that way; in some rare cases it functions instead as an intensifier. Disgruntle developed from this intensifying sense of dis- plus gruntle, an old word (now used only in British dialect) meaning "to grumble." In the 1920s, a writer humorously used gruntle to mean "to make happy"—in other words, as an antonym of disgruntle. The use caught on. At first gruntle was used only in humorous ways, but people eventually began to use it seriously as well.
Word History
Etymology
back-formation from disgruntleFirst Known Use
1926, in the meaning defined above -
So in other words, it’s a synonym of combobulated.
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