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Letters
- Letter Frequencies - How often does each letter of the alphabet appear in English?
- Letter Groupings - What are some of the different ways letters of the alphabet can be classified?
Words
- Collective Nouns - What is the correct term for a group of foxes, bears, or hawks?
- Proprietary Eponyms - Trademarks that have fallen into common, generic use.
- Contronyms - Words that serve as their own antonyms.
- Heteronyms - Words that are spelled the same but differ in meaning and pronunciation.
- Unusual Word Forms - Strange ways certain words are pluralized or are changed from one gender to the other.
- Negatives Without Positives - Negative words, such as dismayed and inept that have no positive form.
- Numbers - A collection of fun facts about numbers, as written out in English.
- Word Oddities - A collection of miscellaneous fun facts about words.
- Commonly Misspelled Words - Which is spelled correctly: Indispensable or indispensible?
- Commonly Mispronounced Words - Which is pronounced correctly: Lam-BAST or lam-BASTE?
- Commonly Confused Words - What's the difference between founder and flounder? Effective and effectual?
- Word Frequencies - What are the most commonly used words in the English language?
Sentences
- Palindromes - Sentences that read the same backward as they do forward.
- Pangrams - Sentences that contain every letter of the alphabet.
- Autograms - Sentences that self-document their letter content.
- Grammar Foibles - Sometimes errors in grammar can produce humorous results.
- Conflicting Proverbs - Pairs of wise sayings that contradict each other.
Glossaries
- Commonly Looked Up Words - What words are most frequently looked up in dictionaries, and what do they mean?
- Glossary of Linguistics and Rhetoric - What do euphemism, hendiadys, cacophony, and procatalepsis mean?
- Glossary of Fun Words - What word means to throw out of a window? To dance a child on one's knees?