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Dining & Cooking<p>Nonperishable food drive to help McDowell County residents <a href="https://www.diningandcooking.com/1944077/nonperishable-food-drive-to-help-mcdowell-county-residents/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">diningandcooking.com/1944077/n</span><span class="invisible">onperishable-food-drive-to-help-mcdowell-county-residents/</span></a> #<a href="https://vive.im/tags/h" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>h</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/bailey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bailey</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/colton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colton</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/county" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>county</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Drive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Drive</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/jimmies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jimmies</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/McDowell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>McDowell</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/restaurant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>restaurant</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Says" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Says</span></a></p>
Joshua McNeill<p>"<a href="https://h4.io/tags/Nonpareils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nonpareils</span></a>" here is <a href="https://h4.io/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> "<a href="https://h4.io/tags/sprinkles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sprinkles</span></a>". I was only familiar with "sprinkles" and "<a href="https://h4.io/tags/jimmies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jimmies</span></a>" (in the NE).</p><p>In <a href="https://h4.io/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>French</span></a>, I didn't have a word for sprinkles at all, so I guess it's "nonpareils" or, according to the dictionary, "<a href="https://h4.io/tags/vermicelles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vermicelles</span></a>", but there doesn't seem to be a word in <a href="https://h4.io/tags/LouisianaFrench" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LouisianaFrench</span></a>.</p><p>(Relatedly, <a href="https://h4.io/tags/paintedbuntings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paintedbuntings</span></a> are called "<a href="https://h4.io/tags/passerins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>passerins</span></a> nonpareils" or "<a href="https://h4.io/tags/Papes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Papes</span></a> de <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Louisiane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiane</span></a>" in <a href="https://h4.io/tags/StandardFrench" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandardFrench</span></a> and simply "Papes" in <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a>.)</p><p><a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/candy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>candy</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagecontact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languagecontact</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a></p>
std::polar<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.tetaneutral.net/@swallez" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>swallez</span></a></span> Popularity contests really be <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rustlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rustlang</span></a> my <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/jimmies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jimmies</span></a></p>