You will probably already know this one, but hey – it’s a lot of fun to write about! You may also have thought that alliteration was as simple as “why wouldn’t we want wool” – the repetition of the initial letter of every word in a given sequence – but this is quite far from [...]
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A really splendid word to say. Coming from German, zugzwang (pronounced as you’d imagine it to be) means ‘compulsion to move’. It’s formed by the words zug (move) and zwang (compulsion or obligation). The Germans really do have a lot of words with Z in – playing Scrabble there must be really easy. Assuming you [...] |
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