) Divination by the letters of a name; nomancy. Onomantic (a.) Alt. of Onomantical Onomantical (a.) Of or pertaining to onomancy. Onomastic (a.) Applied to a signature when the body of the instrument is in another's handwriting. Onomasticon (n.) A collection of names and terms;...
less about the name on the truck or the person carrying boxes of supplies. They just need clean water, food, shelter, and clothing. Their world has been turned upside-down. When that happens, it’s hard to read the name on the side of the vehicle no matter how large the letters are...
while also giving enough context clues for the average reader to figure out that the word which so offends is totally “shithole.” NPR wasn’t alone in whipping out the asterisks; Ben Zimmer reported on Twitter that MSNBC initially went with asterisks, ...
“derived from the scraps of stories that I patch together with the glue of pain and arrange using the probabilities of memory,” Adam’s narrative is one that tends to circle back on itself, digging deeper, and going farther with each turn, while bringing up references to aspects...