CHU
n.— «Flanagan slept in mobile home-like boxes called Closed Housing Units or, in the Army’s acronym-heavy lingo, CHUs (pronounced “chews”).» —“Doctor, soldier” by Pam Mellskog in Firestone Daily Times-Call (Longmont, Colo.) Mar. 24, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Astronauts returning from space say they experience what’s called the overview effect, a new understanding of the fragility of our planet and our need to reflect on what humans all share as a species. A book about the end of the universe...