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Catch My Drift - 27 April 2026

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If you work in tech support, you might use snarky slang for problems caused by computer users themselves.

There’s the acronym PEBCAK , for example, which stands for Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard .

And: a lush poem about the sea inspired by kennings, those riddle-like compound terms from Old English.

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