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Wylfċen

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Wylfċen

@wylfcen

Guy who likes Old English. Amateur professor. THIS IS AN OLD ENGLISH STAN ACCOUNT, IF YOU DON’T LIKE OLD ENGLISH TAKE A WALK PAL

Joined July 2021

Wylfċen
@wylfcen
Jul 20, 2025
Fun fact: Audrey is one of the only Anglo-Saxon names that still exists. It’s from Old English Æðelþryð, which meant “noble strength.”
best of audrey hepburn
@hepburnfiles
Jul 19, 2025
audrey hepburn photographed by milton greene for ‘gigi’ in 1951
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@wylfcen
Apr 18, 2025
English is full of “lexical gaps,” words that are implied to exist but don’t, because we borrowed a bunch of words from Latin but not other, related words. Somebody made a chart to show it↓
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@wylfcen
Oct 30, 2024
Deporting people who say this to a random country
Chuck D
@MrChuckD
Oct 29, 2024
Immigration is a concept
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@wylfcen
Apr 20, 2025
When you look at old pictures, you notice men in the past were making gay poses all the time. idk why the poses are gay now.
Fascinating
@fasc1nate
Apr 20, 2025
Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany inspecting troops, ca. 1915
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@wylfcen
Mar 14, 2025
Actually the moon is a guy. Don't misgender him
Alicia🦎👁‍🗨🪐🌘 ⬛️ (Doctor)
@hollowearthterf
Mar 14, 2025
Lowkey hate it when men look at the moon, She’s for the girls
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@wylfcen
May 5, 2025
DON’T say “restaurant,” which is from French. The native English word is SNEEDINGHOUSE.
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@wylfcen
Apr 10, 2025
I love how Navajo is so averse to loanwords that they make their own words even for proper nouns. “What’s Japan? Oh you mean squinty eyed people land.”
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@wylfcen
Oct 1, 2024
It’s GERMAN-AMERICAN Heritage Month, the time to celebrate what makes us proud of being German. Who’s your favorite German from history?
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@wylfcen
Jul 12, 2025
“imo we should genocide pitbulls” “Actually it’s the owner, not the breed” Damn even I wouldn't go that far, but if you insist
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@wylfcen
Nov 4, 2025
Once again I’m proven right
Because We Live Here 🇺🇸
@BWLH_
Nov 3, 2025
My view of who is eligible for immigration into the United States is based on The Potable Water Question: This is the map of the world from nations the CDC said Americans can safely drink the water if they visit (Green). Red is where the CDC says it's not safe to drink.
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@wylfcen
May 8, 2025
This is what elves looked like btw. The word “elf” comes from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós, which literally meant “white or pale person.”
Ash
@H1TWOM4N
May 5, 2025
I think of this photo constantly
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@wylfcen
Aug 3, 2025
The story of how this was discovered is crazy: >Be an Egyptian farmer named Muhammad Ali >Dig for nitrate-rich fertilizer along the Nile >Strike something hard with your shovel >It turns out to be a skeleton. Whatevs >Wait a minute! Next to the skeleton is a large
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@wylfcen
Oct 7, 2024
>Read about the Sami people >Everyone calls them “Europe’s only indigenous people” Pretty sure that's not true
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@wylfcen
Nov 2, 2025
If someone becomes an American simply by crossing our border, then everyone stops being American when we deport them. “But I’ve lived in America for 30 years!” Not anymore. We sent you to Pakistan, so now you’re Pakistani.
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