kingdom or kindom? 0 ▲ Love is Verbing 1 hour ago · Culture · hide · 0 comments One has a ruler, one doesn't. One is in the common vernacular one is new. One is about ownership, one is about shared home-land/sky-scape. I'd like to introduce a new word for our time (long overdue): KINDOM. Perhaps you'd like to consider using it? Or at least changing the spelling, or deliberately losing the 'g'! Could we 'word spell' something more enchanting? I'm 'musin' and choosin'. Heads up this is a musing of the slightly rambling kind ... My imaginary dictionary entry might look like: KINDOM (n.) Any physical space where life exists, i.e. the earth and its skies irrespective and dismissive of humanly constructed borders or apparent ownership. This is a space which includes all, therefore no one or thing can be banished from it. Roots: kin from Old English cynn 'family*', dom from Old English, 'statute, judgement'. Cognate with German -tum ('Jurisdiction', hence 'province, state, condition, quality.' [etymonline] Therefore our kindom is the province (providence?) or domicile… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.