It always does pay to look things up.

Yesterday we had stirfry, and today I finished it, and I thought - "Hm, I wonder when the word stirfry entered the English language?"

I assumed as part of this that it was a calque of the original, probably Chinese, term. But I was wrong! No, although "stirfry" as a word does characteristically look like a Chinese-to-English calque, in fact it was straight-up invented by the authors of this cookbook. (The term was, not the technique.)

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Watching Stranger Things with Eva, on Episode 3

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I could've sworn I had another week for this.

And by this, I mean a. my period and b. fireworks. It's a twofer of misery today!