The word snoop - Ursula Dubosarsky 2009

The word snoop - Ursula Dubosarsky 2009

How it all began

The first alphabet

The english alphabet

Let’s change the alphabet

Invent your own alphabet

Shorthand

Why is english so strange?

Silent letters

The invention of printing

American spelling

Plurals

Hooray for anglo-saxon!

Shakespeare and the bible

Dots and dashes, interrobangs and cat’s claws

Punctuation

Punctuation: Signs & Symbols

Punctuation in other languages

Punctuation: Do we need it?

Letters, letters, letters

Anagrams

Pangrams

Lipograms

Acronyms

Is that another greek word?

Palindromes

Mnemonics

Oxymorons

Who likes playing games?

Pig Latin

The rebus

Rhyming slang

Say that again!

Puns

Homophones

Mondegreens

Onomatopoeia

Tongue twisters

Portmanteau words

Hmm i wonder what you’re really saying

Euphemisms

Don’t mention it

Doublespeak

Clichés

Tautology

Is that a real person?

Nicknames

Eponyms

Spoonerisms

Tom swifties

Malapropisms

Pen names

Back to the future

Telegramese

Texting, LOL, Leet and More

Smileys

Word Snoop Glossary

The keys to the Word Snoop’s codes