Add to ORKGTHere are two ways to try this little teaser: either match the definitions in the left-hand (numbered) column with the words in the right-hand (lettered) column, or (if you really want a different challenge) attempt to guess the words whose origins are given, covering up the right-hand column and working without its help
Word Ways has frequently explored the oddities of United States placenames, in such major articles a...
A host of clues makes up this quiz (Deep myst\u27ry here for you to ponder); Each one defines a word...
We find foreign names that are rendered into English odd indeed: consider the Indian Sitting Bull ...
You will very likely recognize most of the words asked for in this quiz--once you get them. But the...
Sometimes, though we scarcely ever notice it, words give clear evidence of where they came from: arr...
Etymologies are strange and uncertain things. Does the game of TENNIS get its naame from the French ...
In my forthcoming book on onomastics, What\u27s in a Name? from Genealogical Publishers of Baltimo...
With the aid of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, which contains 46 pages of...
This one is one of my best: a lot of new connections/etymologies, and many etymologies from before r...
The decisive clue for an etymology is often found by chance. This paper presents four cases which co...
The word etymology, taken from the Greek words etumos, mean ing II true, 11 and logia, meaning &apos...
The word etymology, taken from the Greek words etumos, meaning true, and logia, meaning one who s...
Over the years Word Ways has displayed a varied logological corpus. In this column I revisit forgott...
Word weaves were introduced by Steven Kahan in the Feb 2005 Word Ways. When the letters in the odd ...
Since the common crossword puzzle is currently the most popular of all word games, it becomes the lo...
Word Ways has frequently explored the oddities of United States placenames, in such major articles a...
A host of clues makes up this quiz (Deep myst\u27ry here for you to ponder); Each one defines a word...
We find foreign names that are rendered into English odd indeed: consider the Indian Sitting Bull ...
You will very likely recognize most of the words asked for in this quiz--once you get them. But the...
Sometimes, though we scarcely ever notice it, words give clear evidence of where they came from: arr...
Etymologies are strange and uncertain things. Does the game of TENNIS get its naame from the French ...
In my forthcoming book on onomastics, What\u27s in a Name? from Genealogical Publishers of Baltimo...
With the aid of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, which contains 46 pages of...
This one is one of my best: a lot of new connections/etymologies, and many etymologies from before r...
The decisive clue for an etymology is often found by chance. This paper presents four cases which co...
The word etymology, taken from the Greek words etumos, mean ing II true, 11 and logia, meaning &apos...
The word etymology, taken from the Greek words etumos, meaning true, and logia, meaning one who s...
Over the years Word Ways has displayed a varied logological corpus. In this column I revisit forgott...
Word weaves were introduced by Steven Kahan in the Feb 2005 Word Ways. When the letters in the odd ...
Since the common crossword puzzle is currently the most popular of all word games, it becomes the lo...
Word Ways has frequently explored the oddities of United States placenames, in such major articles a...
A host of clues makes up this quiz (Deep myst\u27ry here for you to ponder); Each one defines a word...
We find foreign names that are rendered into English odd indeed: consider the Indian Sitting Bull ...