words

now, i thought it was a modern phenomenon to use obscure characters in names, like exclamation marks and question marks, and of course the liberation of the @ sign in to every email address.
however, it seems the typographical thing goes way back. like frederik who abbrev’d himself to fred^k. That’s a superscript underlined k. fancy that.
i’ll even forgive his capitall letters as it’s so good.

pubbish is a good word. it was written on a piece of paper outside a publisher’s office near where i work so perhaps it’s a contraction of ‘publishers rubbish’
but i think it better describes the feeling of wanting to nip to the pub. “i’m feeling a bit pubbish. fancy it?”

how good is this advert ? i took this photo in the BBC radio studios a while back. the word apprarel is great and we should all try and use it at least once in the next week.

here are some instructions on the back of some stickers that Esther got from a party. it makes no sense what so ever. which is a great idea.
click for a version big enough to read.

plush is such a great word.

remeber elegant ? he’s found two new friends

click photo to see the word on the street:

i saw this confusing thing on some garage doors and spent ages looking at it. then i realised. so took another photo.

answer here (in case you haven’t already guessed)

would you believe it, about an hour after writing this i saw the word lush written on a box in the street !
it was the kind of box which would have had tomatoes (another blog post this morning) in.
what a bizarre circular morning.