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What term describes repeating the exact same meaning through redundant words?
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What wordplay term describes blending two words into one, like brunch?
Answer: Portmanteau
Why: Lewis Carroll popularized the linguistic sense of portmanteau in Through the Looking-Glass to explain Jabberwocky words.
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Which comedic device ends a sentence with a twist that reframes its start?
Answer: Paraprosdokian
Why: From Greek para plus prosdokia, against expectation. Henny Youngman's 'Take my wife, please' sets you up in three words, then flips them.
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What word spells a different word backwards?
Answer: Semordnilap
Why: The name semordnilap was created by spelling the word palindromes backwards.
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What is a pronounceable word made from initial letters, like radar?
Answer: Acronym
Why: Coined by the US Navy in 1940, RADAR packs radio detection and ranging into one word; scuba and laser were built the same way.
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Which linguistic term describes creating snail mail after email became common?
Answer: Retronym
Why: Frank Mankiewicz coined retronym in 1980 once AstroTurf forced sportscasters to say natural turf; William Safire put it in print that July.
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What term describes a word born from a typo?
Answer: Ghost word
Why: The fake word dord entered Webster's dictionary in 1934 after an editor misread D or d as a single word.
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