Add to ORKGOf all living languages, English stands out as an ever-fluent fountainhead of verbal curiosities. Under the relentless scrutiny of the modern horde of minutia-minded logomaniacs, English has afforded a trivia-trove of wordy gems. English has graciously submitted to combings, coinings, and mutilations which would have all but exhausted many denser tongues\u27 gaming potential
My obsession for playing with words was ignited nearly ten years ago, with the discovery of a palind...
Vocabularies are important parts of all languages across the globe. When vocabularies develop throug...
The peculiarities of language play in modern English printed and electronic mass media аre discussed...
Playing with words is such a common and natural pastime in natively English-speaking societies that ...
English is a language which is changing from day to day, so that words and terms which are, this yea...
Modern recreational linguistics, as codified by Dmitri Borgmann in Language on Vacation (Scribner\...
In Hamlet, Polonius tells King Claudius that brevity is the soul of wit . If we can believe that t...
According to Dmitri Borgmann in Beyond Language (Scribner\u27s, 1967), the English language contains...
I wouldn\u27t be a rich letterer if I didn\u27t tell you that the acronimble Peter Pangram who put t...
English is perhaps the most mongrel of languages; Spanish and Swahili are the nearest runners-up. Un...
Everybody knows of English English, American English, and Pidgin English. Many know of dialects of o...
This paper aims to illustrate, by using a single sentence as the focus of the study, the inseparabil...
In the August 1976 Kickshaws, I claimed that linguistics and logology have little in common. Having ...
There are four basic ways wehreby words enter a language. There are the original words, so old we ca...
Creativity in English, and particularly “lexical creativity” (Munat 2016), has attracted scholarly a...
My obsession for playing with words was ignited nearly ten years ago, with the discovery of a palind...
Vocabularies are important parts of all languages across the globe. When vocabularies develop throug...
The peculiarities of language play in modern English printed and electronic mass media аre discussed...
Playing with words is such a common and natural pastime in natively English-speaking societies that ...
English is a language which is changing from day to day, so that words and terms which are, this yea...
Modern recreational linguistics, as codified by Dmitri Borgmann in Language on Vacation (Scribner\...
In Hamlet, Polonius tells King Claudius that brevity is the soul of wit . If we can believe that t...
According to Dmitri Borgmann in Beyond Language (Scribner\u27s, 1967), the English language contains...
I wouldn\u27t be a rich letterer if I didn\u27t tell you that the acronimble Peter Pangram who put t...
English is perhaps the most mongrel of languages; Spanish and Swahili are the nearest runners-up. Un...
Everybody knows of English English, American English, and Pidgin English. Many know of dialects of o...
This paper aims to illustrate, by using a single sentence as the focus of the study, the inseparabil...
In the August 1976 Kickshaws, I claimed that linguistics and logology have little in common. Having ...
There are four basic ways wehreby words enter a language. There are the original words, so old we ca...
Creativity in English, and particularly “lexical creativity” (Munat 2016), has attracted scholarly a...
My obsession for playing with words was ignited nearly ten years ago, with the discovery of a palind...
Vocabularies are important parts of all languages across the globe. When vocabularies develop throug...
The peculiarities of language play in modern English printed and electronic mass media аre discussed...