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 ‘p’ is to contaminate?

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What ‘n’ is an old word for promontory or headland?

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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?

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Which of the following is the correct spelling — dessiccated, desiccated, dessicated?

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An onomastician studies what?

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Lahnaphophobia is the fear of what?

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What is philography?

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What is the only word in the English language that both begins and ends with the letters u-n-d?

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Which word can mean a flat-bottomed boat?

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Which word could mean either a piece of coal, a horse, a swan or a bread roll?

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