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  1. Tolerance, Trousers, and Egyptian Bar Jokes

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    July 9, 2022 by libroshombre

                International Tolerance Day won’t roll around until November 16, but it’s increasingly obvious we ought to celebrate “sympathy or …
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  2. Peeves, Persiflage, and Portmanteaux

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    June 18, 2022 by libroshombre

                “Foist,” “to introduce surreptitiously,” is a word I like, perhaps because librarians enjoy  foisting books and information, albeit overtly, …
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  3. Breviloquence, Tosspots, and Uberty

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    June 15, 2018 by libroshombre

      My parents were children of the Great Depression, and, consequently, so was the vocabulary I inherited, complete with “mazuma” …
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  4. Anu, Dana, and Nero

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    February 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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  5. Anu, Elmer, and Helen

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    January 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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  6. Anu, Noah, and Beverly

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    December 2, 2016 by libroshombre

      The term “culprit” has been on my mind since I lost most of a recent powerpoint presentation due to …
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