Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Hidden Wonders of Linguistic Curiosities is a medium crossword puzzle with 18 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Hidden Wonders of Linguistic Curiosities
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
- 1. Words imitating natural sounds, like 'buzz' or 'clang'
- 2. Switching initial sounds between words for humorous effect
- 3. Rare adjective describing a deep sky blue color, sometimes in linguistics
- 4. Manuscript with multiple layers of writing, erased and rewritten
- 5. Sound made using the vocal cords, like the catch in 'uh-oh'
- 9. A word that occurs only once in a text or corpus
- 11. Mistaken, yet plausible, word substitution by speakers
- 12. Insertion of a sound into a word for easier pronunciation
- 13. Figure of speech where a word applies to multiple parts of a sentence
- 15. A written character representing a word or morpheme
- 16. A name used by a group to refer to themselves
Down
- 6. Process of repeating a whole or part of a word for grammatical effect
- 7. Word formed by blending two others, like 'brunch'
- 8. Language used primarily for social interaction rather than content
- 10. Rearrangement of sounds or syllables in a word
- 14. Consonant sounds produced with the tongue near the ridge behind upper teeth
- 17. Words in different languages that share a common origin
- 18. Insertion of a word or phrase inside another word
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