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Arcane Linguistic Oddities and Rarities
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Across
- 1. Characterized by long words, often used ironically or pedantically
- 2. Phenomenon of unintelligible speech often attributed to divine inspiration
- 3. A newly coined term or expression, sometimes eccentric or experimental
- 9. Describing a word that defines itself, like 'polysyllabic' in style
Down
- 4. A word recorded only once within a context or body of literature
- 5. Beginning of a rare English term describing trivial quantity
- 6. Linguistic boundary demarcating dialectal differences geographically
- 7. Mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often comedic
- 8. Pathological or playful repetition of others' spoken words
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