First, some fun: A reader recently e-mailed me this puzzler, and I can't resist sharing it with you:
There is something unusual about these eight words. See whether you can figure it out: assess, banana, dresser, grammar, potato, revive, uneven, voodoo. The answer is at the end of the column. No peeking, but there's a clue lurking below.
— namesake — A few months ago, I wrote about the misuse of "ancestor" to mean "descendent." Now Ralph Sims of B ...
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