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Enigmatic Echoes in Language Patterns
Explore rare linguistic phenomena and their intriguing quirks in this crossword puzzle focused on unusual language features.
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Across
- 1. Harsh or unpleasant sound in language
- 3. Repeating a word or part of it to alter meaning
- 4. Blending two words into one with combined meaning
- 6. Immediate repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis
- 8. Omission of sounds from the middle of a word
- 9. Misheard lyric or phrase with altered meaning
- 13. Transposition of sounds or letters in a word
Down
- 2. Loan translation from one language to another
- 5. Phonetic phenomenon involving a constriction of the glottis
- 7. Grammatical mood expressing advice against action
- 10. Insertion of a sound within a word
- 11. Change of rounded vowel to unrounded vowel
- 12. Swapping initial sounds of words, like 'blushing crow' for 'crushing blow'
- 14. A word formed by fusing parts from two different words
- 15. Insertion of a word between parts of a compound word
- 16. Loss of a sound or syllable at the end of a word
- 17. Shortening a longer word, like 'ad' from 'advertisement'
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