East Los
n.— «Gunfires of east los/everberate in san fernando.» —“this is the city [reply to jmj] /z.” by Zita Maria Evensen Usenet: rec.arts.poems Oct. 18, 1993. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Information technology specialists have clever lingo referring to computer users who come to them all worked up about a problem, only to discover that it’s a matter of an error on the part of the user, not the computer. In the tech world, that’s...
Our discussion of Anglo-Saxon kennings inspired listener Paul Holler of Arlington Heights, Illinois, to write a lovely poem exploring the idea of the kenning sea-guest, meaning “sailor,” and what it means to be a guest of the sea and what that says...