Heteronyms: Different Words that Look the Same
It’s surprising that heteronyms don’t cause more confusion than they do.
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Fun with Words: Reduplication
Credit to the Phrase Finder website for much of the information on this topic. I love words, and one of the great …
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Body Participles: A Word Thing
Ever thought about words like backbreaking, nail-biting, toe-tapping? Well, I have!
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Paraprosdokian: Unexpected Humor
A paraprosdokian (from the Greek meaning “beyond expectation”‘) is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. Here are a few good ones…..
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