English Words & Origins
Are you an etymology enthusiast? A grammar guru? If you think you have some [sic] trivia skills, now's not the time to feel tense. Period.
What ‘n’ is an old word for promontory or headland?
What is the Latin word for ‘elsewhere’ which we use to mean that the person under suspicion was somewhere else when the crime was committed?
Which of the following is the correct spelling — dessiccated, desiccated, dessicated?
An onomastician studies what?
Lahnaphophobia is the fear of what?
What is philography?
What is the only word in the English language that both begins and ends with the letters u-n-d?
Which word can mean a flat-bottomed boat?
Which word could mean either a piece of coal, a horse, a swan or a bread roll?
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