Jeff

What are the odds that GRACE HOPPER would have the same number of letters as Ada Lovelace?

I spent too much time trying to understand why the two dots in Brontë are a dieresis and not an umlaut and why it is there, given that the family was of Irish roots. Here's what Wikipedia has to say: At some point, Patrick Brontë (born Brunty), the sisters' father, decided on the alternative spelling with the diaeresis over the terminal ⟨e⟩ to indicate that the name has two syllables.

This puzzle led me on a deep dive on the origins of "zhuzh," which I was not familiar with. Seems it comes from Polari, a British slang. Look it up; it's fascinating.

They got the Wednesday and Thursday puzzles reversed!

Please bring back the ESC key to enter a rebus. Doesn't work no more.

TIL that Lima, OH is pronounced like the bean rather than the city in Peru for which it is named. Ohioans also changed the pronunciation of Cairo, so maybe that's just their thing.

Anyone else confused by 35-down? Personification of victory = NIKE. The running shoe? How is that a personification?