Three miscellaneous items that came past my eyes this morning: the delicious word fissiparous in the Economist; crash blossoms on the A.Word.A.Day site; and a festival of abbreviations on the Transstellar Journal Publications and Research Consultancy Private Limited site. Fissiparous. In the Economist of 3/24/12, p. 59, a story on the Archbishop of Canterbury: Fissiparous … Continue reading Odds and ends