According to a mathematician who exhaustively studied the subject, what it the hardest word to guess in Hangman?
(Think of letters people are likely or unlikely to guess.)
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It’s Friday, which means it’s fudgel time.
What does fudgel mean?
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Name a five letter word that is pronounced the same as its first letter.
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Shakespeare is estimated to have invented 1,700 words.
But that still leaves plenty of space in our lexicon for the creation of new ones.
This week we want you to be like Shakespeare and invent a word that needs inventing.
If you team name is anything like the above examples, you will get a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
What are the most commonly used noun, verb, and adjective in the English language according to the Oxford English Dictionary?
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In the Oxford English Dictionary in 1933, what word was defined as a sequence of six cards?
It has since taken on a very different meaning.
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This is Edward Murphy, an aerospace engineer from the US Air Force.
You probably haven’t heard of him, but you probably have heard of something named after him. What was it?
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What do all of the following words have in common?
Couscous, froufrou, intestines, horseshoer, signings.
If you were to use a dictionary where all the words were spelt backwards, what would be the last word?
We’re not counting slang terms, proper nouns, acronyms, or abbreviations, but we will accept obscure words, provided they’re not just in the urban dictionary.
“Abuzz” is in the first few pages of a standard dictionary, but because it ends with the letter Z twice, it would be towards the end of our reversed letter dictionary.
In the context of on road cycling, what does the acronym SMIDSY stand for? (The first two letters are “Sorry mate.”)
