Category Archives: abbreviations

  1. Confusion, Erasers, and Phonetics

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    November 3, 2025 by libroshombre

                Sure seems like there’s more confusion afoot than usual, but I suppose confusion’s a constant throughout human history.  Even Daniel Boone …
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  2. Roger, Venn, and Confiscius

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    November 2, 2025 by libroshombre

                We swim in a sea of symbols: acronyms, emojis, icons of all sorts, etc.  As old Confucius declared, “Signs and symbols …
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  3. Bees, Theopneustic, and OK

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    May 12, 2025 by libroshombre

                The great Beverly Sills liked to say, “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going,” and that’s certainly …
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  4. Pullation, Holophrasm, and Cekoslovakyalilastiramadiklarimizdanmissiniz

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    October 19, 2015 by libroshombre

                People who look for them find that new, amusing, and useful words seem to pullulate.  A.Word.A.Day, that fount of …
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