Category Archives: alphabet

  1. Alephs, Acrostics, and April

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    May 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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  2. Alephs, Acrostics, and April

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    March 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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  3. Apples, Alphabets, and Wine

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    March 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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  4. Demonyms, Dialects, and the Letter K

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    March 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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