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TEACHING AND LEARNING
A Telling Bit of Research
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Spoiler alert — if you don’t want the answer to today’s Wordle, then stop reading.
In an effort to write more, I am trying to write every day using Wordle as a prompt.
Which brings me to today’s prompt “Burly”. I have been thinking all day about Burly men I have known, and if I don’t write this article quickly, that’s going to be my day. Those guys were nice, but I need to move on.
I need to get images of guys named Tom wearing flannel out of my head.
Of course, I started with Google. When I put in “Burly Definition”, I got a nice concise definition and some related questions.
Clicking on the one that says “Is Burly positive or negative?” I get a blurb from UPenn’s Language Log website that seems to indicate that the word originates with surfing culture in California. I’ve never really thought of surfers as Burly, but a beach full of waves is a better mental image spot for me, so I explored further.
“Originating from surfer culture and/or Southern California. An expressive term to mean something is of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both.” — Quoted from UPenn’s Language Log as a direct result of a Google search for “Burly…
