The Filtnib is Esther Bintliff; it’s also her surname backwards, minus an F; it’s also an amalgam of the words filt and nib, which are defined below, thanks to the almighty dictionary; it’s also suggestive of a variety of appropriate things including felt-nib pens, pen nibs in general, filters (through which you may see things newly or in different shade) and lastly nibbles i.e. bitesize chunks of hopefully edible substance.
Esther is a reporter at the Financial Times but the thoughts expressed on this blog are merely her own.
Contact me this way: filtnib@gmail.com
filt.
(in prescriptions) filter.
[Origin: < NL filtrā]
nib [nib]
–noun
1. the point of a pen, or either of its divisions.
2. a penpoint for insertion into a penholder.
3. a point of anything: a cutting tool with a diamond nib.
4. a bill or beak, as of a bird; neb.
5. any pointed extremity.
[Origin: 1575–85; perh. var. of neb; cf. D nib, MLG nibbe (var. of nebbe) beak, ON nibba sharp point. See nibble]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
