Is there a name for these kind of doubled words?  For example:   hanky-panky flim-flam hoity-toity boo-hoo zig-zag   Note that some rhyme and others do not.
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Some English words only differ in their vowels: crisscross, dillydally, riffraff, etc. Is there a name for them?
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There's a million examples of this, but the one that comes to mind is "smoke shop" with images of pipes in place of the "S"s, like this:     Is there a word for this? (It's not a rebus!)  I often see it in lazy or sometimes terrible graphic design. "Visual pun" comes close, but in many cases there doesn't seem to be any punning at all, or maybe they're just unfunny. In the worst cases, the word is rendered nearly incomprehensible or ambiguous.  More examples, all of which are fairly "punny". (I can't find any examples of the unfunny/downright-incomprehensible ones, sorry.)
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How do I list multiple things that are compound words?  In my own language I'm used to writing these lists like this:  "I kicked foot-, basket-, and volleyball"  The sentence is supposed to mean that I kicked all types of balls (football, basketball and volleyball). However, it does not seem correct to me. Should I write them as whole words, with or without hyphen, or how?
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XS sounds like excess, B4 sounds like before, XLNC sounds like excellency, etc.  What are these wordplays called?
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Is there a higher register word that means to criticize something highly specific and inconsequential? Any synonym I can think of seems a little too vernacular, e.g. "to split hairs", "to nitpick". What's a more professional/academic way of saying this? I'd prefer a single word if one exists.
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Can you resolve a dispute between myself and my girlfriend? She recently won a game with what I think is a double movement (although there's no mention of this in the rule book).  She put one two letters down to make one word, which also scored linked to another letter. But she then added another letter immediately to the left of the finished word, which then extended the second word. I just don't think you can make a second movement like this in scrabble!    My sister placed down W, D and E, the ones that I circled in red. Is she allowed to do that? I told her it was impossible is it?  Can you resolve this for me please?
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This is purely a curiosity, but I'm fascinated by mid-word pluralization, even if the word in question is a compound word.  For example, passersby or standersby.  No others have occurred to me. Can you provide other examples, or a link to a resource that enumerates them?  I'm particularly interested in compounds that do not include spaces or hyphens.
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Are there any patterns to observe in choosing the correct negative prefix to use, as in unbelievable, disproportionate, asymmetric, and intolerable? (There are other negative prefixes as well, but these are the ones I usually mix up.)  Un- and in- are probably the ones I most frequently mix up, as in *untolerable/intolerable, *unedible/inedible, *unexact/inexact, *unappropriate/inappropriate, ... I realize these are all in-, but why? Is there anything to look for there?
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Is there a grammatical rule to compound a set of words such as a single one? e.g.  word1 word2 --> word1word2  or word1-word2? Bye.
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I have the distinct feeling there's a word often used when two people type the same thing at the same time in Internet chat contexts. Not necessarily exactly the same words, but closely related.  Maybe I've even come across it myself but forgotten it. All I can think of now is "Snap!", but that sounds a bit lame in this day and age (who plays cards nowadays, with all these video games?).
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I have the feeling I'm forgetting a very simple word. But anyway, is there a word for that? Example:     The [...] that haven't occurred yet are the most scary ones.
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I am not a native speaker and it sometimes surprise me how many different meanings some words have. An example is the word call - when I was learning English I thought it was only "shout" or "to ring someone" but the list of meanings is almost endless:  .  What are some other such words so that I can be careful when interpreting their meaning? As if I could execute the query "give me a top ten list of words with most definition lines on TheFreeDictionary".
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I mean adjectives like: ablaze, afloat, alive, ashore, ...   I did a quick Google search and found that they are called a adjectives. But I do remember that I came across a different denomination in a grammar book some time ago, but I have since forgotten that word.   Could anyone help?
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Is there a term for words that summon someone like "Man," "Dude," "Kid" in sentences such as "Hey, Dude," "Listen up, kid," etc?    I am sure there is, but I can't really remember what it is.
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Observed some words get pronounced with a /sh/ rather than /s/ in certain situations.   Stripes as "Shtripes" (from some "The Wire" episode) Screw it as "shcrew it" (from a rap song)   In both situations, it seems to be a matter of emphasis, but is there some generic etymological root to this, e.g. a yiddish language background?
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I am looking for words that convey similar meaning to the following: 'whoopee', 'yeah', 'yahoo', when such words are used as exclamations of joy or excitement, as in :     'Whoopee! Hammertime!'       'Yeah! Holidays!'       'Yahoo! School's out!'   Perhaps in this type of usage 'synonym' is not the correct term, and I hope what I am asking is in any case clear.  In addition, very localised or period-specific words are very much okay (as long as you can reference it). For example, perhaps in 18th century Bordeaux people shouted "Mercante!" to mean the same thing.
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I am referring to a set of words that wouldn't make sense if one word or the other was omitted. Like barbershop quartet, or Cyber Security. What do you exactly call this set of words?