There has *got* to be a word for that pause you take before hitting Send, to make sure that #autocorrect isn’t going to change the last word you typed.

Got any suggestions?

TO COG. To cheat with dice; also to coax or wheedle, To cog a die; to conceal or secure a die. To cog a dinner; to wheedle one out of a dinner.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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HUM DRUM. A hum drum fellow; a dull tedious narrator, a bore; also a set of gentlemen, who (Bailey says) used to meet near the Charter House, or at the King's Head in St. John's-street, who had more of pleasantry, and less of mystery, than the free masons.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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CLAPPER. The tongue of a bell, and figuratively of a man or woman.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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CLINCH. A pun or quibble. To clinch, or to clinch the nail; to confirm an improbable story by another: as, A man swore he drove a tenpenny nail through the moon; a bystander said it was true, for he was on the other side and clinched it.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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TWIST. A mixture of half tea and half coffee; likewise brandy, beer, and eggs. A good twist; a good appetite. To twist it down apace; to eat heartily.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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HOBBY. Sir Posthumous's hobby; one nice or whimsical in his clothes.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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The port of my music player #Benben to #CommonLisp continues... and as of tonight, the original S-Lang TUI interface is working! ​​ I even managed to fix a bug with the scrolling text fields and Japanese text.

The only C bindings going on here are: #libxmp (to play the .xm file), libao (final audio output), ZStandard (VGM decompression), and #S-Lang (TUI). The rest is pure Common Lisp, including the DSP effects and #VGM playback/chip emulation.

Normally you launch this from the command line (which is also working), but I did it with Emacs+Slime just to be fancy.

#LinuxAudio

Irish 5-point Likert scale:

Cat - Middlin' - Grand - Savage - Mighty altogether

Inspired by https://mastodon.ie/@Tarbh/114273783046794813

BUBBLY JOCK. A turkey cock. SCOTCH.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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REBUS. A riddle or pun on a man's name, expressed in sculpture or painting, thus: a bolt or arrow, and a tun, for Bolton; death's head, and a ton, for Morton.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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COG. The money, or whatsoever the sweeteners drop to draw in a bubble.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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COLD PUDDING. This is said to settle one's love.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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COW'S COURANT. Gallop and sh---e.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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ANGLING FOR FARTHINGS. Begging out of a prison window with a cap, or box, let down at the end of a long string.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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TABBY. An old maid; either from Tabitha, a formal antiquated name; or else from a tabby cat, old maids being often compared to cats. To drive Tab; to go out on a party of pleasure with a wife and family.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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ADDLE PLOT. A spoil-sport, a mar-all.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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TO CUTTY-EYE. To look out of the corners of one's eyes, to leer, to look askance. The cull cutty-eyed at us; the fellow looked suspicious at us.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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FRATERS. Vagabonds who beg with sham patents, or briefs, for hospitals, fires, inundations, &c.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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ABEL-WACKETS. Blows given on the palm of the hand with a twisted handkerchief, instead of a ferula; a jocular punishment among seamen, who sometimes play at cards for wackets, the loser suffering as many strokes as he has lost games.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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