I will add that “nayward” is appropriate for my attitude towards the quacksalver’s misprised hypodermic syringes.

Both good words. We should use them more often.

I wrote a short essay on the rectification of names. It might still be in the MW archives, but without a search engine I doubt I will be able to find it.

No.

There are Russians spying on me? I can’t see any under my bed, or lurking behind the bottlebrush tree in the garden. Maybe that car parked down the road…

The Hague? Brussels, surely.

You should thank the Zionists, Mooser. If they keep going, you’ll soon be worth the really big bucks.

I hope Trump keeps following the Putin line. Putin is far more intelligent, educated, knowledgeable about the world, and sensible than Trump and all his minions.

I’m pretty sure the children make roughly Arabic-sounding noises, so it should be possible to write their language (the local colloquial) in the Arabic alphabet.

And do the Arabic-speaking countries still have many illiterates?

Of course, Mooser. It’s anti-Semitic to talk about anyone else.