Two of the comments my Web administrators (or whatever you call them — the good folks at SiteGround, i mean) directed straight to my “spam” bin recently are these: “If Charlie and Charles have the same number of letters, and Charlie has two syllables and Charles only one, then in what sense is ‘Charlie’ short for ‘Charles’? And: “If there’s a crumb on your table and you pick it up and break it in half and put both halves back down on the table, are there two crumbs there, or two halves of one crumb?’

Makes me think the standup comic Steven Wright is reading my blog. (Hello, Steven; hello!)