Can you guess the answers to the following language trivia questions?
(1) What do you call the words that read the same if you read them backward? The common examples are the words Eve, noon, Madam and otto.
(2) What do you call the word that is created from the switching or rearranging of the letters in your word? An example is the word meat which can be rearranged to team.
(3) What do you call the sentence that consists of all the letters of the alphabet? The most famous example is, “A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
(4) What do you call the words with different spellings and meanings but are pronounced the same? Example: ate and eight; eye and I
(5) What do you call the words with the same spelling but different sound? Example: minute and minute
(6) How about the words with the same spelling but different meanings? Example: content (satisfied) and content (to include in something)
(7) What do you call the word that is formed from the association of sound to something? Example: meow meow for cat
(8) What do you call the words that fuse the meaning of two words and merge the sound as well? The example is breakfast and lunch which when put together become brunch or information andcommercial that results in infomercial.
(9) What do you call the repetition of sound of the first letter in words that come in a series? The popular example is “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”.
(10) What do you call the creation of new words? Example: Xerox and Kleenex
Can you add more language trivia questions to the list? Feel free to share the language trivia you know.
Answers:
1. palindrome
2. anagram
3. pangram
4. homophone
5. heteronym
6. homograph
7. onomatopoeia
8. portmanteau
9. alliteration
10. coinage
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