Tag Archives: word trivia

June 18, 2011 · 8:00 am

Trivia Saturday

Welcome to Trivia Saturday.

Word Nymph has declared this Language Trivia week. Every day of this week, Monday through Saturday, I’ve been throwing out a question. If you know the answer or would like to take a guess, do so as a Comment to that day’s post or simply wait until next Monday, when all answers will be revealed. Today is the last day, but it’s not too late to play. You can answer questions from Monday through Friday by going to those posts and submitting your answers in the Comments. Good luck!

Todays’ question:

What is a zeugma? Can you give me some original examples?

See you Monday!

Trivia Friday

Welcome to Trivia Friday.

Today’s question:

Readers in some countries use double quotation marks that look “like this.” In others, quoted text is placed inside guillemets to set off certain portions of text. What do guillemets look like?

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Tagged as guillemet, word trivia

June 15, 2011 · 8:00 am

Trivia Wednesday

Welcome to Trivia Wednesday.

Word Nymph has declared this Language Trivia week. Every day of this week, Monday through Saturday, I’m throwing out a question. If you know the answer or would like to take a guess, do so as a Comment to that day’s post or simply wait until next Monday, when all answers will be revealed. Good luck!

Today’s question:

What is the typographically correct term for the pound sign, or the number sign?

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Tagged as term for number sign, term for pound sign, word trivia

June 14, 2011 · 8:00 am

Trivia Tuesday

Welcome to Trivia Tuesday.

Word Nymph has declared this Language Trivia week. Every day of this week, Monday through Saturday, I’ll throw out a question. If you know the answer or would like to take a guess, do so as a Comment to that day’s post or simply wait until next Monday, when all answers will be revealed. Good luck!

Today’s question: