Frankincense is also in the Bible as another gift from the 3 Magi.
Also, Myrrh is often interpreted at the gift that was given to represent Jesus's sacrifice (as Myrrh was also an embalming fluid). Frankincense is most often thought of as the gift of incense to signify Christ as the High Priest and God because it was the incense used in the Holy Temple.
A Christmas Carol about the Wise Men™️ who visited the baby (or possibly like 2 year old at that point bur everyone has them depicted with everyone else at Nativity scenes just for symbolism) Jesus with gifts of Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh, symbolic of the royalty they knew him to be
And There’s That One Song That Adds Some Details But It Seems Like It’s Just Making Stuff Up But My Church Really Likes It Even Though I’m Not The Biggest Fan™️
I only learned recently that it's one of the earliest Christmas carols to come from the US! Though it's technically not for the 25th of December itself, it's for Epiphany, the 5th of January and the 12th day of Christmas, which is also known as Three Kings day.
I suppose it depends on when you celebrate Christmas in the end. For most of the Christian (and federal) population of the US, it starts on the 25th and ends the evening of the 5th. It might be different if you are in an Orthodox church.
Frankly the "sometimes" is a load of shit, it just is a vowel. I'm pretty darn sure it's used for /i/, /ɪ/, and /aɪ/ more than it's ever used for /j/. English is dumb as hell
You’re probably right that it represents a vowel more often than a consonant, but I don’t think “sometimes” means less than half, it just means sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t, without necessarily indicating which is more common.
Which is really funny because that's actually kind of how Balthazar's verse goes in We Three Kings. After Gaspard and Melchior sing about giving the child Jesus gold and incense to crown him and worship him, Balthazar comes in with myrrh and is like 'this kinda smells like death. and yeah, one day you're gonna die.'
"Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume / Breathes a life of gathering gloom / Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying / Sealed in the stone cold tomb."
Right - and this is noteworthy because it was heckin expensive. Most people couldn’t afford such expensive burial spices, making it a powerful symbol for the people who used it on his body.
Of course I suspect they couldn’t get a refund three days later… “High-quality myrrh. Lightly used; like new.”
My first two words cover 10 different letters. In addition, I had already seen a Reddit comment saying that adieu had all gray so I figured it was only fair that it was my first guess
Y is the vowel. They say that Y is sometimes a vowel, but it's really mostly a vowel and sometimes a consonant. The only times when Y is a consonant is when it starts a word, otherwise it's a vowel.
I texted my sister when I was stuck with no knowledge but the word ended in “h” and there had to be a “y” and an “r” somewhere and slowly as I was talking it out I realized it had to be “myrrh” and I don’t think I have ever been more furious
Uggghh, thanks for the bad memories. Felt beyond dumb that after all these years I don't know how to spell it, been a Christian for over 2 decades now, and spent many years helping to put on a live nativity play, and do you think I remembered and passed that day? Nooooooooooooo, of course not. Talk about a character building moment
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I started this one at around midnight and I legitimately had to sleep on it and come back to it once I woke up, only to work on it for another half an hour and get it in 6.
Myrrh is like the number 1 ancient incense. It’s even in “We Three Kings”
I assumed it was chosen on purpose to tie into the Christmas season.
Yeah, given the next word was "white" as in a Christmas like the ones I used to know.
now it's just a christmas that I used to know
Frankincense is clearly number 1. Myrrh is number 2 at best
Nuh uh. Myrrh bible blitzes and wins no diff frankincense is high continental on a good day
Frankincense is also in the Bible as another gift from the 3 Magi.
Also, Myrrh is often interpreted at the gift that was given to represent Jesus's sacrifice (as Myrrh was also an embalming fluid). Frankincense is most often thought of as the gift of incense to signify Christ as the High Priest and God because it was the incense used in the Holy Temple.
I was going to reply with "But... but... frankINCENSE". However I prefer theological explanations in Christmastide
It’s the most badass verse too.
“Myrrh is mine; its bitter perfume
breathes a life of gathering gloom;
sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying,
sealed in the stone-cold tomb.”
https://preview.redd.it/caj8wnklfu9g1.png?width=669&format=png&auto=webp&s=a631a2c18ddf1fcc9b4d2b0ac765819c82a6881e
Tf is we three kings
A Christmas Carol about the Wise Men™️ who visited the baby (or possibly like 2 year old at that point bur everyone has them depicted with everyone else at Nativity scenes just for symbolism) Jesus with gifts of Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh, symbolic of the royalty they knew him to be
Ah yes, the Wise Men™️
The Very Important Guys We Know Next To Nothing About And Only One Gospel Even Mentions Them
And There’s That One Song That Adds Some Details But It Seems Like It’s Just Making Stuff Up But My Church Really Likes It Even Though I’m Not The Biggest Fan™️
It's a Christian Christmas carol
It's the original version of we three trees
How the hell have you never heard of WTK??? “ Weeee threeeeee kingsss of orient are….. bearing giftssss we’ve travelled farrr”
"One in a taxi, one in a car..."
We three kings of Leicester Square
We sell thongs and underwear
So fantastic, no elastic
Only a penny a pair
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I only learned recently that it's one of the earliest Christmas carols to come from the US! Though it's technically not for the 25th of December itself, it's for Epiphany, the 5th of January and the 12th day of Christmas, which is also known as Three Kings day.
are those dates really that solid? i thought they varied more by tradition
I suppose it depends on when you celebrate Christmas in the end. For most of the Christian (and federal) population of the US, it starts on the 25th and ends the evening of the 5th. It might be different if you are in an Orthodox church.
Funnily enough I am from the US. It’s more likely because my family’s not religious, though if it’s widespread beyond that then I have no clue.
Christmas Carol based on Matthew 2:1-12 in the New Testament of the Bible.
Christmas Carol about the three wise guys who visited baby Jesus.
Y is a vowel sometimes
So is "R." Linguistics is weird.
Huh?
They're referring to syllabic consonants:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabic_consonant
https://youtu.be/Tjf_MOyB0K4?si=mchg6D4O6Yd7kcnd
R and L can both be vowels like in “purple” (pronounced PRPL)
Crwth.
Also cwm, a bowl-shaped valley also borrowed from Welsh
Best known for the Western Cwm on Everest.
You’re right what the fuck is up with פּרפּל
https://youtube.com/shorts/pOGo4_OgWFU?si=Y1xe7L5gBZTCFQIQ
Also 'w' in 'cwm', a real English word.
Its probably a vowel more often than not tbh. There are so many words that end with Y and it's a vowel in all of them
And used to be pronounced with a short u sound (maintained in Welsh, hence "cymru" is "cumru")
Frankly the "sometimes" is a load of shit, it just is a vowel. I'm pretty darn sure it's used for /i/, /ɪ/, and /aɪ/ more than it's ever used for /j/. English is dumb as hell
You’re probably right that it represents a vowel more often than a consonant, but I don’t think “sometimes” means less than half, it just means sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t, without necessarily indicating which is more common.
Beat me to it!
tf you mean sometimes
"Myrrh-der!"
Gasp "Judas!"
Which is really funny because that's actually kind of how Balthazar's verse goes in We Three Kings. After Gaspard and Melchior sing about giving the child Jesus gold and incense to crown him and worship him, Balthazar comes in with myrrh and is like 'this kinda smells like death. and yeah, one day you're gonna die.'
"Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume / Breathes a life of gathering gloom / Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying / Sealed in the stone cold tomb."
It was used in Christ’s embalming, so I can see the connection.
Right - and this is noteworthy because it was heckin expensive. Most people couldn’t afford such expensive burial spices, making it a powerful symbol for the people who used it on his body.
Of course I suspect they couldn’t get a refund three days later… “High-quality myrrh. Lightly used; like new.”
That explains a fair bit, yeah.
King and God and sacrifice.
OH that changes everything. I always heard "sack of rice".
I remember her every Christmas, lol
Legendary vine
Relevant, as myrrh at the time was burned for funerals
anyone who's culturally Christian crushed that one
I DIDN'T CRUSH IT AND I FEEL LIKE AN IDIOT
(Admittedly despite being a wise man during the nativities I thought it was spelt with like an i)
Helps that it was less than a week until Christmas lol
I got it on the 2nd guess
I was raised Catholic and the word wasn’t familiar to me at all 😔
myrrh is a fire emblem character
https://preview.redd.it/jqd4iprp729g1.png?width=393&format=png&auto=webp&s=d9d8a0c48272db8d28912af599213bfb24816424
best dragon of the series
She doesn't look it, but she's actually a 1000 year old dragon
I’ve heard that excuse too much
I knew I heard that name before.
Ain’t that the dude from Impractical Jokers?
Yall forgot to pay attention in Sunday School
So did I lmao I was so mad when I missed this
By that logic, “sky” and “fly” aren’t words either
I had absolutely no problem getting it.
https://preview.redd.it/8vl211q1p29g1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4687739f8f61915aaebcdffda4f3b78162aa5278
Oh you're one of those...
https://preview.redd.it/32nen4fkv29g1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80eb39a49176872bd9d74d28aeb2da0c20742866
My first two words cover 10 different letters. In addition, I had already seen a Reddit comment saying that adieu had all gray so I figured it was only fair that it was my first guess
My first two words are 'boobs' and 'party', every day, and I still got it
https://preview.redd.it/q1gi3z70g39g1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=9606b991727b5c68b8e60e3f7026d79883d6e746
https://preview.redd.it/t6fcgilqp59g1.jpeg?width=387&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06344236f82e0edc40076143d0eb35b491232d22
https://preview.redd.it/59ljzasa539g1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62d4caafb3ad01a3126eaf42d0a826c7ac5389ab
Omg
Everyone I know who plays Wordle was so mad about that one lol
Y is the vowel. They say that Y is sometimes a vowel, but it's really mostly a vowel and sometimes a consonant. The only times when Y is a consonant is when it starts a word, otherwise it's a vowel.
Myrrh is the bald fella on Impractical Jokers
“Myrrh doesn't even have a vowel” is the most English bs I've ever heard
My cousin’s dog is named Myrrh!
I texted my sister when I was stuck with no knowledge but the word ended in “h” and there had to be a “y” and an “r” somewhere and slowly as I was talking it out I realized it had to be “myrrh” and I don’t think I have ever been more furious
y is a wovel bro
“The orbs, please return them to me.”
-Myrrh, Fire Emblem
Todays wordle was easy in comparison, idk wtf they were thinking with that one lol.
One does not simply walk into Myrrhdor
But Y is a vowel tho
Uggghh, thanks for the bad memories. Felt beyond dumb that after all these years I don't know how to spell it, been a Christian for over 2 decades now, and spent many years helping to put on a live nativity play, and do you think I remembered and passed that day? Nooooooooooooo, of course not. Talk about a character building moment
Fire emblem senses got me here before the wordle thing caught up
https://preview.redd.it/i65voybib59g1.jpeg?width=586&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=026b3ee3682ca5842f1272aa011217aae9e0a196
Nice
Y:
Here is the longest Scrabble compliant word that I know with genuinely no vowels.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/psst
Y counts as a vowel sometimes
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Y is a vowel. Sometimes.
If you spread it on a duck it goes faster
https://preview.redd.it/ceppu63ki49g1.jpeg?width=1186&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=225a9b9451eee7aa3816cd1405a47f34dec27511
Then NYT showed up! Making everyone online look like a bitch again!
You clearly haven't played quordle because Myrrh is on there all the time
HEY I KNEW THIS ONE WHEN IT HAPPENED. 3/6
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/12/16/relative-wisdom
Y is a vowel sometimes.
Got this one in three and have never felt prouder
being familiar with christianity gave you an edge in that one
It's featured very prominently in one of the main Vines!!
Y was originally created to be used as a vowel.
Humiliated myself in front of my boss thanks to this. Thanks NYT
"It doesn't have a vowel" my brother in christ there is a Y right there
Did yall not grow up learning that y is sometimes a vowel?
I literally had to brute force this wordless at one point, trying every single combination of the two letters I had remaining.
sometimes Y and W
Y is sometimes a vowel
I started this one at around midnight and I legitimately had to sleep on it and come back to it once I woke up, only to work on it for another half an hour and get it in 6.
RAAAAAH Y IS A VOWEL
Still waiting for "that twelve letter word with all the Xs and Js" to be the answer.
Cwm is a Scrabble legal word and I hate it
Myrrh
...
Myrrh-dirr!!
*gasp* Judas...! No...!
Link to the vine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y7EBA5GMJk)