Quiz Guy John Chaneski offers a puzzle about kangaroo words. They’re words that contain a synonym of themselves. For example, the word devilish contains what adjective that means the same thing? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript...
Is there a synonym for the word synonym? Yes, there are two: polyonym and poecilonym, but they’re rarely seen except in collections of unusual words. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Synonyms for...
Maybe and perhaps are basically synonyms, but perhaps tends to appear in slightly more formal language. Caller Ron from northeastern Wisconsin noticed as much: he grew up saying maybe, yet he sees perhaps in print and on television. It’s not a...
Can words ever be perfect synonyms? No. Words can have approximate synonyms, but there are always shades of implicit and explicit meaning. Consider, for example, the terms butt and derrière. Although both refer to the same part of the anatomy, they...
Anagrams are words formed by rearranging the letters of another word, such as star and arts. As Paul Anthony Jones points out on his site Haggard Hawks, some words can be anagrammed to a synonymous word, such as enraged and angered, or statement and...
The letters in the word sterilize can be rearranged to form the synangram Listerize. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Sterilize and Listerize as Synonymous Anagrams” I have another synanogram for you. That’s a...