Category Archives: alphabet
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Confusion, Erasers, and Phonetics
Leave a commentNovember 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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Typos, Pottery, and ABZs
Leave a commentNovember 26, 2024 by libroshombre
There’s Murphy’s Law coined by American aerospace engineer Edward A. Murphy, Jr. in 1948, “Anything that can go wrong will …
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Alephs, Acrostics, and April
Leave a commentMay 3, 2023 by libroshombre
My handwriting’s always been bad, but these days it’s bordering on awful. Perhaps I’m channeling my inner Phoenician for …
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Alephs, Acrostics, and April
Leave a commentMarch 31, 2023 by libroshombre
My handwriting’s always been bad, but these days it’s bordering on awful. Perhaps I’m channeling my inner Phoenician for …
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Apples, Alphabets, and Wine
Leave a commentMarch 5, 2018 by libroshombre
If “Language is wine upon the lips,” as Virginia Woolf espoused, English is sometimes the language of winos. Take that …
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Demonyms, Dialects, and the Letter K
Leave a commentMarch 27, 2014 by libroshombre
Hillbillies were mentioned in my last column as being synonymous with hicks, rednecks, and Hoosiers, which is “the official demonym …
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