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veil-of-exordia · 2 years ago

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The Courty Yard

Saw the word 'courtyard' and thought it must be a misspelling of 'country yard' until I realized that 'courtyard', as in 'court' + 'yard', was a word 12 hours later

My mind was pronouncing it 'core-tee-yard' and I'm like 'courty' is probably not an extant adjective; therefore 'courty' cannot be used to describe 'yard'.

But if 'courty' does exist it should be a synonym to 'seductive'. I want to read some fic in which 'I walked courtily towards them'

#it was the courtyard hotel no less.#oc #humor #humour #misread #words #courty #if you think 'courty' has to do with royal courts or law courts you're wrong.#'courtly' is the extant adjective referring to that #'courty' should exclusively refer to the verb form of 'court'#and not the noun form #word #linguistics #etymology #bonus: I read 'Bangkok' as 'Ragnarok' once

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