The Creative Artists Agency (CAA) represents some incredibly famous people, including Stephen King, Robin Williams, and Bruce Willis.  The CAA also represents Joost, the Internet television service, thanks to a deal announced earlier this week.

Here, in the nether-regions of the Greater Boston area, we have a linguistic habit of leaving the letter ‘R’ out of words like ‘car’ (pronounced caa) or ‘Harvard’ (pronounced haavaad). It’s what makes us special.