Babble 3
23 January, 2014
Below are some curious tales of the wordy kind I’ve come across lately. Most hail from Twitter, the ideal tool for filter-feeding, and where you blog host spends far too much time. But still, if you find stories like these…
A team at radio.com has combed through the back catalogue of Bruce Springsteen lyrics, creating word clouds for each decade. Seems The Boss is smitten by love, street, baby, girl and night. No real shock, though it’s fascinating to see the decades evolve, and the third-strong words.
123123, iloveyou, qwerty and letmein are all password cliches, and therefore flimsy defence against online opportunists. A great piece from Slate magazine. Why not share your passwords past (or present for the risk takers!)?
If you love your literature – and your exquisite squiggles – then you’ll love this Vulture list on the 5 finest users of punctuation in the Western canon… (ellipses © TS Eliot). Who wins your marks for punctuation marks?
Did you know CARE package was an acronym? Or Soweto? An article on the Oxford blog about surreptitious acronyms, from Navy Seal to Pluto (the pipe). Any more to add?
Believe it or not, your extended family is likely to include an eam, a fadu and a modrige. The lesser known terms for your nearest and dearest, via Mental Floss. I think we can add Groovy Granny.
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