Okrand may not live in Florida but IIRC Senator Rubio was being mentioned in the national news a lot 4 or 5 years ago. Perhaps Okrand just liked the sound of this politician’s name. (He’s in the news again… he became U.S. Secretary of State yesterday!) -- Voragh From: De'vID via tlhIngan-Hol Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2025 4:34 PM On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org<mailto:tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org>> wrote: Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, January 17, 2025 Klingon word: rubyo' Part of speech: noun Definition: politician Source: qep'a' 28 [2021] _______________________________________________ PUN: U.S. politician Marco Rubio Do we have reason to believe that this is a reference to Marco Rubio, other than the phonetic resemblance? It seems out of character for Okrand. While there are references to real-life people in the vocabulary, they have tended to be either people in Okrand's life or from the entertainment industry (either real people or the names of characters). AFAIK Okrand doesn't live in Florida, where Rubio is senator, so what is the connection? OTOH I'm hard-pressed to come up with an alternative explanation. -- De'vID