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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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Anu, Dana, and Nero
Leave a commentFebruary 5, 2018 by libroshombre
Today’s word, pneumooultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, came to my attention from A.Word.A.Day – “the most welcome mass email in cyberspace,” according to …
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Bibliothecarial Ignorance and School Boards
Leave a commentJanuary 29, 2018 by libroshombre
Adolph Hitler’s better known than Dr. Dee, Queen Elizabeth I’s one-man think tank, but both were involved in the …
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Anu, Elmer, and Helen
Leave a commentJanuary 29, 2018 by libroshombre
Texas Monthly Magazine’s January Bum Steer awards are a New Year tradition in which the worst of the worst …
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Panties, Crocodiles, and Otorhinolaryngology
Leave a commentJanuary 9, 2018 by libroshombre
Long ago when I ran the public library in Corsicana, Texas, I investigated starting a company to manufacture women’s …
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Elvis, Casanova, and Dr. Dee
Leave a commentJanuary 1, 2018 by libroshombre
Being a librarian isn’t as straightforward as you’d think. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the mother of all dictionaries, …
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Cock, Sockeye, and Lady Mondregreen
Leave a commentDecember 21, 2017 by libroshombre
Pliny the Elder could have been describing current times when he declared, “The only certainty is that nothing is certain.” …
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WPTYs, Disinformation, and Fake News
Leave a commentDecember 18, 2017 by libroshombre
Thousands of skiers are probably despondent today, now that “WAxit” was only a runner-up for the Australian National Dictionary …
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Generalizations, Circadians, and Mammothrepts
Leave a commentDecember 18, 2017 by libroshombre
“All generalizations are, when you get right down to it, false, including this one,” Mark Twain once wrote, but …
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Books, Books, More Books!
Leave a commentOctober 14, 2017 by libroshombre
Long ago I took up the banner of bibliophile Winston Churchill: “If you cannot read all your books, at …
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