A Pop Quiz for Word Lovers
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Here are the answers to our Pop Quiz for Word Lovers.
If you answered more than seven questions correctly, consider yourself a bona fide logophile.
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Here are the answers to our Pop Quiz for Word Lovers.
- The letter w. (As Douglas Adams observed, the abbreviated form of World Wide Web--WWW--"takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.")
- All three are examples of pluralia tantum--nouns that appear only in the plural form.
- All four are blends or portmanteau words--word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two or more other words.
- dysphemism
- Both sentences are pangrams: they use every letter of the alphabet.
- Each is a palindrome, reading the same backwards and forwards.
- All four are Janus words--words having opposite or contradictory meanings.
- All four nouns were originally trademarks; now they're regarded as generic names.
- Each of these 15-letter words contains no letter more than once.
- synonym
If you answered more than seven questions correctly, consider yourself a bona fide logophile.
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