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Arcane Linguistic Oddities Unveiled
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Across
- 1. Wordplay reshuffling letters into cognitive confusions
- 3. A word or phrase mirrored perfectly forward and backward
- 6. Undercover silent gesture conveying hidden messages
- 7. Question not seeking answer but dramatic effect
- 9. Misheard lyric creating a whimsical alternative meaning
Down
- 2. A slip swapping initial sounds, named for a reverend's quip
- 4. Borrowed phrase literally translated into another language
- 5. Freshly minted lexeme shaping evolving speech
- 8. Words with same spelling but different pronunciations and meanings
- 10. Idiosyncratic error preserving original phonetics in new form
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