Sonny Sandberg

@sonnysandberg.net

STEM Teacher in a Danish public school. Teaching 7th to 10th grade. Besides teaching I have a side project where I work on a project to make young people read more. I do this by utilizing my skills as an educated programmer and system developer.

Entertaining words for “cool” or “excellent” and, per the The Historical Thesaurus of English, the approximate dates they're first recorded: 1613: topgallant 1666: spanking 1776: ripping 1802: smick-smack 1828: supernacular 1838: lummy (originally probably a variation on "Lord love me") (1/2)

En ting er at skyde en ulv, som åbenbart er så stort et problem, at man ikke kunne finde den i lang tid, uden brug af en drone. Derefter stiller man sig fandme op og viser den frem på TV. Nogle politikere er ganske enkelt for langt ude i jagten på stemmer.

So when Donald was not taking the real plane, because they were afraid for his safety, did the other people not take it either or did they just fly without knowing?

Remember back in the day, if you said you had smoked pot, your political career in the US was done. I thought that was too crazy. I want to go back to that way of thinking now.

@hankgreen.bsky.social I use the dress in my science classes and with 22 pupils this year, we were pretty much 50/50 on which saw what. And it was incredible because they just could not understand how the other 50% could not see what they are looking at. I believe it has been 50/50 every time.

I HAVE A DREAM. I have a huge interest in words, why they are what they are and why things are spelled the way they are. I am finally getting back to teaching English. 8th graders. I want to make them interested in words too. Other teachers say it can't be done. I say: Challenge accepted.

🥉 Why is the third time a charm? ⛅️ What's so great about "seventh heaven"? 🙃 Why do we say "at sixes and sevens"? Count ‘em! @robwords.com and I explore these numerical idioms and many more in the latest, magnificently mathematical edition of Words Unravelled.

Two people on a cloudy background with numbered clouds. The foreground bears the words number idioms and words unravelled.

If you tell me to subscribe to your channel, I WON'T. If you tell me to like your video in the beginning, I WON'T. Having every single creator begging for likes and subscribers is making me want to unsubscribe to everything. And I cannot be alone in this.

My publisher is having me record the audiobook edition of Useless Etymology next week. It’s been a long time since I felt so wildly underqualified for a task. (And yes, I did recommend several, more experienced alternate readers!)

So now USA wants to get money for transport in a place with which they have nothing to do, because it is unsafe there. It is unsafe there because your fuckhead of a President started a war. Donald wants to overthrow free passage rights that are older than the US itself. Go fuck yourself.

Donald really wants to control Greenland, but how about Denmark instead controls the US? Maybe we could get that shitshow of a ship turned around and have people get healthier, smarter and happier.