Logophiles may already know some of these. Mental Floss features twenty-five words whose purpose is to describe the nature of other words. Two examples: EMORDNILAP If a palindrome is a word or phrase that spells the same backwards as forwards, then an emordnilap is a word that spells a completely different word when it is …
Apart from my legendary dislike of camping, beaches and bush walks, I’m also not a big fan of board games. My wife will probably play at least one game of Scrabble when we’re away on holidays. Apparently Scrabble has recently let a whole bunch of so-called words into its official dictionary. With the slow death …
Channel 10’s promo for new drama Extant. It must be a play on words that I’m missing. Surely. I don’t think they mean it’s a trade guild. I have no intention of watching to find out.
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