Word trivia

Do you know the British Word of the Year 2015? Well take a look at our article. We give you an overview about the Words of the Year in English speaking countries with lists from the different societies which elect the Word of the Year.

Do you know how to solve a crossword clue without a little help from our Crossword Solver? We give you some hints and suggest some different examples of clues!

Have you ever checked to see which surprising words your name can be transformed into? This game with letters is called an “anagram”. We take a look at the play and share with you our Anagram Solver for solving different anagrams.

Counterintuitive pronunciation is a language phenomenon that occurs when the phonetic rules of your first language clash with another. Mispronouncing names can be very embarrassing – and very amusing.

Lettuce from the Editor: What else is the sun, but a night in shining armour? And what else is Homophony, than the sound of two words colliding? What tells us this?

Fine doubt for yore’s elves!

Every second week one language dies out. Once a year the UNESCO commemorates all the endangered languages and their speakers with the International Mother Language Day. What it’s all about with this day and the background you get to know here.

Here you learn something about how we make words from letters, how they work, where they come from and how and why we can read them.

What exactly are palindromes, what can you do with them, and what is so funny about them? Find out more on the longest palindrome, the longest palindrome sentence, or musical palindromes.

In our daily life, anagrams approach us on many levels. A huge scope of application is found in fiction in general and in TV shows especially. Anagrams are often used for character names in TV shows to reveal a hidden meaning related to the person or to underline a typical quality of the character. To start off with, there are two kinds of anagrams in TV shows that we have to distinguish. You can find them here.

At first, mankind was given the ability to speak in different tongues. But soon the tongues got bored and started the Syllabic Shuffle…