Interesting Links for 28-05-2018

[andrewducker]

Reminder that Labour blocked extending abortion rights to Northern Ireland so that the DUP would back longer detention without trial

(tags: Labour abortion NorthernIreland DUP )

DUP demands same post-Brexit laws as rest of UK, apart from all the abortion and gay rights stuff

(tags: satire NorthernIreland DUP abortion lgbt )

Interest rates have been declining since the 14th century

(tags: history economics )

Why “children,” not “childs”?

(tags: language history )

What's going on with people who aren't celiac, but can't eat wheat

(tags: wheat gluten celiac FODMAPS food viaFJM )

On being a working class academic

(tags: money academia class )

Ditch Your Scumbag Friend: A Life Hack for Men Who Want to Be Feminists

(tags: feminism men )

What the world's fascination with nüshu, a female-only Chinese script, says about cultural appropriation

(tags: cultural_appropriation China women viaSwampers )

Unifying Theories of Psychedelic Drug Effects

(tags: psychedelics )

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[danieldwilliam]

My mum says that many of her country relatives used the word eggen for eggs.

[del]

Caxton tells the story of a sea merchant from Yorkshire gone ashore in Kent asking for eggs, and the housewife saying sorry, she doesn't speak French. Eventually someone works out he wants eyren.

"Loo, what sholde a man in thyse dayes now wryte, egges or eyren? Certaynly it is hard to playse every man, bycause of dyversite and chaunge of langage."

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Caxton
http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/large126611.html