Erin McKean, the Dictionary Evangelist, has a post today on the coinage of the term ygology, meaning the study of palindromes. Her take is that the word was an inevitability of English, demanding birth. No argument there. But then she also references ambigrams, which are visual representations of words that are somehow symmetric. If you [...]
Archive for 16 October 2007
Ambigrams
Posted: 16 October 2007 in UncategorizedTags: ambigrams, books, cool stuff, neologisms, optical illusions, weird words, word puzzles
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Iraq Casualties
Posted: 16 October 2007 in UncategorizedTags: antiwar, casualties, flash, iraq war, military, peace, vietnam war, world war ii
When I hear a number like 3828, it doesn’t sound all that high. I mean, that’s a fraction of the number of people who died in Vietnam (about 60k, including missing), which was a small fraction of the number who died in World War II (14+ million). And those are just the American and allied [...]
