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Aluminium
This week over on @HaggardHawks, this intriguing little fact popped up: Write out the names of all 118 chemical elements currently known to science, and you’ll never use a single letter J.—...
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St Lucia
Here’s an intriguing little fact that popped up on @HaggardHawks the other day: ST. LUCIA is the only country in the world named after a woman. http://t.co/oLcpVgYaIFpic.twitter.com/65njVdQGaZ—...
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13,000 followers!
Wow, I can’t keep up with you all! It’s barely been three weeks since HaggardHawks passed the 12K threshold, but now Ethan the Hawk has flown his way past the 13,000 mark! Thanks, as always, to...
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Carpet
Since the first HaggardHawks post for BuzzFeed went up last week, it’s been viewed more than 300,000 times and, incredibly, has boosted the Twitter account past the 13,000 followers mark—so you can now...
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Cocktail
The word cocktail is a bit of an etymological puzzle: originally only used as a nickname for an animal that rears up when irritated, by the late 1700s it had become another word for a horse with a...
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#MyFavouriteWord 2015
It’s that time again...October 16 is World Dictionary Day, which each year marks the anniversary of the birth of Noah Webster, one of the English language’s foremost lexicographers. As you can probably...
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To celebrate World Dictionary Day, October 16, test your spelling skills with the Haggard Hawks Spelling Bee! Click PLAY in the box below, and you’ll be given 50 English words, five of which are...
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Peripatetic
A pretty perfect P-word popped up on Haggard Hawks the other day:To PERIPATETICATE is to walk on foot.— HaggardHawks Words (@HaggardHawks) November 12, 2015Which raised this perceptively prompt...
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Hyperborean
An intriguing word cropped up on @HaggardHawks the other day: Someone who is HYPERBOREAN lives in the extreme north.— HaggardHawks Words (@HaggardHawks) November 15, 2015Which raised this equally...
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14,000 followers!
The good old @HaggardHawks Twitter feed quietly crept past the 14,000 mark this weekend, which can only mean one thing—thinking-caps on (and a pen and paper at the ready for question 17), it’s time for...
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Mistletoe
Christmas is almost upon us again, which means bouningyour home, preparing your Yule-hole, and misportioningyourself silly. And brandy sauce. Lots of brandy sauce. Brandy sauce with everything....
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2 Year Anniversary Quiz!
Ah, sunrise, sunset... It seems like only yesterday that HaggardHawks fluttered into life over on Twitter on 10 December 2013, but two years, 9,000 tweets, 14,000 followers and one factbook later, here...
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Top 10 Tweets 2015
Well, it’s been a grand old year for HaggardHawks. First, there was the fact book (stay tuned US followers, your edition is on its way...). Then there was the 10K milestone. And now, at the tail end of...
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15,000 followers!
A very Happy New Year, everyone! Well, what a way to start 2016. The @HaggardHawks Twitter feed added its 15,000th follower over the Christmas break, which, if you’ve been following us for a while,...
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100 words worth knowing
Typical. You wait months for a milestone to come along, and then two come along at once. Just two days after reaching the 15,000 followers mark, the @HaggardHawks Twitter feed tweeted its 10,000th...
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It’s been a long time coming, but HaggardHawks has finally flown over to YouTube!Throughout 2016—as part of a new project we’re calling #500Words—we’ll be posting a new video to the Haggard Hawks...
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The second video in HaggardHawks’ new 500 Words project is live now on YouTube! Click below to take a look...This time around, we’re looking at 10 Words Spelled Q Without U—including an Albanian...
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Lek
If you’ve been keeping up with the new HaggardHawks YouTube channel, chances are you’ve already seen the second video in our new #500Words project, which went online yesterday. Looking at the meanings...
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Continuing our #500Words project, this week over on the HaggardHawks YouTube channel we’re looking at 10 X Words. As explained in the video, X isn’t actually the rarest letter of the alphabet overall,...
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Nose-wipe
This tweet nosed its way onto the @HaggardHawks feed yesterday:To NOSE-WIPE someone is to cheat or deceive them.— HaggardHawks Words (@HaggardHawks) January 26, 2016And, in response to a quick query...
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