Acronyms in the News

The October 1 issue of The Week magazine mentions that the International House of Pancakes is suing the International House of Prayer (A Kansas City religious mission) for using its acronym. Apparently the International House of Prayer has abbreviated its name as IHOP for the past 10 years without incident and only recently has it become an issue, according to an International House of Pancakes spokesman, because "the church has expanded and now some of the branches are serving food."

I wonder what would happen if the International House of Prayer started giving out MP3 players loaded with prayers and changed the orthography of its acronym to iHOP?

Noam Chomsky in the News

"The government of Israel does not like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the category of, I suppose, every other government in the world."

- Noam Chomsky in response to being blocked by Israeli border guards from entering the West Bank through Jordan, quoted in The Week (May 28, 2010 issue)

I wonder if they would have let this Noam cross the border?

*Spotted on JustSay Gnome!

Noam Chomsky is considered to be one of the fathers of modern linguistics. Click here to read more about Chomsky.