Lib*rian

Just glanced at a fundraising letter, and for a moment wasn’t sure whether it said “Liberian activist,“ “libertarian activist,” or “librarian activist.”

(It turned out to be the first of those, but I was intrigued by the juxtaposition of those three categories, even though that juxtaposition was only in my head.)

(Also interesting that I didn’t pattern-match with other similar words, like Libran or libertine or Libyan; apparently I caught the rian part even though I missed the middle of the word.)

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