Today is April Fool’s Day, and with our new factbook Word Drops on its way in just over two weeks’ time, now seems like the perfect opportunity to offer you the chance to win yourself a copy ahead of its release on 16 April...
So alongside our usual daily dose of words and language facts, today we tweeted five tweets with the hashtag #HHAprilFools—and one of them is completely untrue. Tell us which one you think it is either by commenting on it, tweeting @HaggardHawks, or by commenting on this blogpost. If you’re right, your name will go in the hat, and if picked out you’ll win one of three signed copies of Word Drops we have to give away.
Oh, and like all the best quiz shows we have to accept your first answer. So no hedging your bets and commenting on all five…
(1) In Old English, hiccups were ‘ælfsogoða’. It literally means “elf-chokes”. #HHAprilFools
— HaggardHawks Words (@HaggardHawks) April 1, 2015
(2) A SMIDGEN is precisely 1/32nd of a teaspoon. #HHAprilFools
— HaggardHawks Words (@HaggardHawks) April 1, 2015
(3) MAISTER-PIG is an old Scots word for a zit or a rogue hair. #HHAprilFools
— HaggardHawks Words (@HaggardHawks) April 1, 2015
(4) In Navajo, Adolf Hitler was known as ‘Dágháilchįįh’. It literally means “he who smells his own moustache”. #HHAprilFools
— HaggardHawks Words (@HaggardHawks) April 1, 2015
(5) A SEMI-HORE is a half hour. #HHAprilFools
— HaggardHawks Words (@HaggardHawks) April 1, 2015
So which one is fake? It’s up to you to decide—comment here or tweet @HaggardHawks anytime before Friday 3 April to be in with a chance of winning. Oh, we’re too good to you, we really are…
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