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VIRGLE for 9/30: https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=ystlom&lang=any&title=VIRGLEVIRGLE is a six-letter Latin Wordle-style game...

VIRGLE for 9/30: https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=ystlom&lang=any&title=VIRGLE

VIRGLE is a six-letter Latin Wordle-style game using the vocabulary of the Aeneid. Words may be inflected or not and proper names are allowed. If you try it, let me know how it goes and whether you liked the picture hint!

VIRGLE 2-for-1, since I forgot to post the last two days. VIRGLE for 9/29:...

VIRGLE 2-for-1, since I forgot to post the last two days.

VIRGLE for 9/29: https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=iotxwe&lang=any&title=VIRGLE

VIRGLE for 9/28 https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=qzclfw&lang=any&title=VIRGLE

VIRGLE is a six-letter Latin Wordle-style game using the vocabulary of the Aeneid. Words may be inflected or not and proper names are allowed. If you try it, let me know how it goes!

VIRGLE comes late in the day today. Here is the link for 9/27:...

VIRGLE comes late in the day today. Here is the link for 9/27: https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=locolw&lang=any&title=VIRGLE

VIRGLE is a six-letter Latin Wordle-style game using the vocabulary of the Aeneid. Words may be inflected or not and proper names are allowed. If you try it, let me know how it goes and whether you liked the picture hint.

VIRGLE for 9/25: https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=atwxde&lang=any&title=VIRGLEVIRGLE is a six-letter Latin Wordle-style game...

VIRGLE for 9/25: https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=atwxde&lang=any&title=VIRGLE

VIRGLE is a six-letter Latin Wordle-style game using the vocabulary of the Aeneid.

Words are taken from Frieze's dictionary of the Aeneid. Forms may be inflected and not necessarily in the form that appears in Virgil's text. Proper names ARE allowed.

NB: The game does not have access to a Latin dictionary, so it will not vet your guesses as latinum/non latinum.

This is manual; i.e., I have randomized the list of headwords automatically but am inflecting them (or not) myself and entering a new puzzle each time, which will have a fresh link each time. So watch for new links to be posted here, rather than going to the same link for a puzzle each time.

VIRGLE for 9/24: https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=wbyhws&lang=any&title=VIRGLEVIRGLE is a six-letter Latin Wordle-style game...

VIRGLE for 9/24: https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=wbyhws&lang=any&title=VIRGLE

VIRGLE is a six-letter Latin Wordle-style game using the vocabulary of the Aeneid.

Words are taken from Frieze's dictionary of the Aeneid. Forms may be inflected and not necessarily in the form that appears in Virgil's text. Proper names ARE allowed.

NB: The game does not have access to a Latin dictionary, so it will not vet your guesses as latinum/non latinum.

This is manual; i.e., I have randomized the list of headwords automatically but am inflecting them (or not) myself and entering a new puzzle each time, which will have a fresh link each time. So watch for new links to be posted here, rather than going to the same link for a puzzle each time.

Please boost/share, and if you give it a try, let me know how it goes!

VIRGLE for 9/23: https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=zskhim&lang=any&title=VIRGLEVIRGLE is a six-letter Latin Wordle-style game...

VIRGLE for 9/23:
https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=zskhim&lang=any&title=VIRGLE

VIRGLE is a six-letter Latin Wordle-style game using the vocabulary of the Aeneid.

Words are taken from Frieze's dictionary of the Aeneid. Forms may be inflected and not necessarily in the form that appears in Virgil's text. Proper names ARE allowed.

NB: The game does not have access to a Latin dictionary, so it will not vet your guesses as latinum/non latinum.

This is manual; i.e., I have randomized the list of headwords automatically but am inflecting them (or not) myself and entering a new puzzle each time, which will have a fresh link each time. So watch for new links to be posted here, rather than going to the same link for a puzzle each time.

Please boost/share! Let me know how it goes and whether you liked the picture hint.

VIRGLE!Are you a Latin Wordle fan? Have you been yearning for a game with just one more letter that would accommodate more inflections?...

VIRGLE!
Are you a Latin Wordle fan? Have you been yearning for a game with just one more letter that would accommodate more inflections? I've been posting on Facebook a daily 6-letter Latin Wordle challenge using the vocabulary of the Aeneid and I thought I'd share it over here.

VIRGLE for September 22nd: https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=ocdqfw&lang=any&title=VIRGLE

Here are the parameters: I randomized the headwords in Frieze's dictionary of the Aeneid. I am going down that randomized list and picking a word of suitable length every day, which I may inflect or not. Proper names ARE allowed. I have generally been posting an image that contains some sort of hint with each day's puzzle.

NB: The Custom Wordle template does not have access to a Latin dictionary, so it will not vet your guesses as latinum/non latinum. And this is manual: the same link will not generate a new word every day; you will need to come back for a new link for each puzzle.

If you find this fun, please let me know and boost/share ad lib.

I should also confess that as I sorted through four years' worth of clever ideas dictated to Siri to put in my Reminders, there were...

I should also confess that as I sorted through four years' worth of clever ideas dictated to Siri to put in my Reminders, there were several about which I had to note "(I have no idea what I meant by this.)" But I transcribed those anyway, because they may prompt other ideas.

Website update: I was wondering where best to keep a list of all the projects I'm working on so I can remember what I planned to do when...

Website update: I was wondering where best to keep a list of all the projects I'm working on so I can remember what I planned to do when I get bored with one project and need to flit over to another for a while. I had "remember to write down the idea of..." notes cluttering my Reminders back to 2019.

And then it occurred to me: I have a website for that! Works in progress update, in approximate order of priority, is at https://ruffnotes.org/ .

Paleographic tooters, does anybody know what happened to the free paleographic fonts that used to be available at...

Paleographic tooters, does anybody know what happened to the free paleographic fonts that used to be available at http://kps-fonts.ch/en_home.html ? Or who made them? I installed a lot of them but not all several years ago, the site is defunct, and I didn't save any other details.

#medieval #medievaldons #paleography #manuscripts

I am LOVING Inside My Favorite Manuscript, @leoba . Are you keeping a tally of how many medievalists have wept when they finally glimpsed...

I am LOVING Inside My Favorite Manuscript, @leoba . Are you keeping a tally of how many medievalists have wept when they finally glimpsed the MS of their dreams, and how many of those were inside the BL Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibit?

Plus in the intervening decade I've rethought a lot of the orthodoxies I was taught by the late-20th-c. greats I studied with.

Plus in the intervening decade I've rethought a lot of the orthodoxies I was taught by the late-20th-c. greats I studied with.

I realized I really wanted to have more control over the display of information than I would have in a website or app, and I wanted...

I realized I really wanted to have more control over the display of information than I would have in a website or app, and I wanted something that could be used in the modular way I originally envisioned, in a super-accessible and freely-reproduceable format—just PDFs, +/- epubs.

Still working on the logistics, but basically it'll be similar to the HMML course, but illustrated with a whole lot more freely shareable images.

We made great use of digitized MS images from HMML's collections and other collections, with permission, but we were pretty constrained...

We made great use of digitized MS images from HMML's collections and other collections, with permission, but we were pretty constrained in the end in terms of what the original vision for that curriculum had been.

With the enormous advances in what's been digitized and made available either public domain or with very liberal #creativecommons licensing, it's become possible to illustrate a lot of what I wanted to do then more richly, especially for the earlier periods.

Before the recent hcommons glitches, I'd been asked to say more about the #openaccess paleography textbook in progress. Turns out some...

Before the recent hcommons glitches, I'd been asked to say more about the #openaccess paleography textbook in progress. Turns out some of my toots on that were saved in one of the Mastodon apps, so I'll repeat them here.

A decade ago I wrote the online Latin paleography curriculum for hmmlschool.org , pulling together what I thought were the best approaches (pedagogically) of all the paleographers I'd studied with but reshaping the content to make it largely accessible to interested users with no Latin, rather than just medieval studies grad students. +

A bit of a reintroduction: I'm a semi-ex-academic currently writing a) writing an open-access textbook of Latin #paleography (on which...

A bit of a reintroduction: I'm a semi-ex-academic currently writing a) writing an open-access textbook of Latin #paleography (on which see more downthread in a sec), and b) a novel about #nuns and #archaeologists. Working on the assumption that procrastinating on one will produce progress on the other.

Previous me: I started out as a rare book librarian, did degrees in #medieval studies at Oxford and Toronto, and ended up going into university teaching, mostly #OldEnglish, #MedievalLatin, & paleography. My research was mainly on pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin and the teaching of grammar and meter in the early Middle Ages.

Since leaving academe, I've worked in #historicpreservation in DC, while teaching the occasional course in Medieval Latin at local universities and workshops in paleography here and there. I worked with HMML on their online manuscript studies suite, writing the Latin components of their School & Folio modules.

More on the paleograpy textbook project in follow-on toots.