Category Archives: spelling

  1. Stupid Thorns and Sassy Emoticons

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    February 18, 2021 by libroshombre

                Old BBC Britcoms provides excellent escape from the pandemic to carefree, less restrictive times for my cellmate and me.  …
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    Category: books, English, English language, language, printers, publishing, spelling, translating, Uncategorized | Tags: , , ,

  2. 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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    Category: alphabet, spelling, Uncategorized, words | Tags: , , , , ,

  3. Unfortunate Headlines, Strange Swords, and Blue-Backed Spellers

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    September 26, 2015 by libroshombre

    A friend recently gave me a delightful collection of “flubs from the nation’s press” titled “Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim.” …
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    Category: American English, language, punctuation, spelling | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

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