Violeta playfully took that photo of me in front of a Bikini shop. Our private joke in that was that I had become modestly popular in Bulgaria and in the US for my interest in the origins of the word bikini. My idea, which renowned specialists proved to be true, was that bi- in that word had nothing to do with the Latin numeral for 'two.' Indeed, as it turned out, it came from Marshallese where it meant 'surface of a coconut.' So, monokini and other -kini are just fancy new forms, the fruit of a popular misunderstanding.