- Did you know that "verb" is a noun?
- How can you look up words in a dictionary if you can't spell them?
- If a word is misspelled in a dictionary, how would we ever know?
- If two mouses are mice and two louses are lice, why aren't two houses
hice? - If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?
- If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?
- If you've read a book, you can reread it. But wouldn't this also mean that you would have to "member" somebody in order to remember
them? - In Chinese, why are the words for crisis and opportunity the same?
- Shouldn't there be a shorter word for "monosyllabic"?
- Where do swear words come from?
- Why can't you make another word using all the letters in "anagram"?
- Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?
- Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
- Why do some people type "cool" as "kewl?"
- Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
- Why do we say something's out of order when it's broken but we never
say in of order when it works? - Why does "cleave" mean both split apart and stick together?
- Why do "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?
- Why do flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?
- Why does the Chinese ideogram for trouble symbolize two women living
under one roof? - Why does X stand for a kiss and O stand for a hug?
- Why doesn't "onomatopoeia" sound like what it is?
- Why don't we say "why" instead of "how come"?
- Why is "crazy man" an insult, while to insert a comma and say "Crazy,
man!" is a compliment? - Why are a wise man and wise guy opposites?
- Why is abbreviation such a long word?
- Why is dyslexic so hard to spell?
- Why is it so hard to remember how to spell MNEMONIC?
- Why is it that no word in the English language rhymes with month,
orange, silver, or purple? - Why is it that the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary?
- Why is it that we recite at a play and play at a recital?
- Why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't
groce and hammers don't ham? - Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
- Why is the plural of goose-geese, and not the plural of moose-meese?
- Why isn't "palindrome" spelled the same way backwards?
- Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?