Scribbled Lives Week 32—Rebus

A rebus uses pictures or symbols to express a word, phrase, or sentence. For example, a picture of a can followed by the letters UC and a picture of a well means “Can you see well?”.

In Latin, the word ‘rebus’ means ‘by things’—rebus is a form of the Latin word ‘res’, which means ‘thing’. English speakers started using the word rebus for picture writing in the early 1600s.

This rebus is phonetic so if you get stuck, talking to yourself might help!

Pigma micron and watercolour on Arches Text Wove.

Need a hint? It’s a first century greeting from II Peter 1:2.