For all you spermologers out there, some facts...and two QUESTIONS!

[Dr. Strange]

Some wordy type trivia:

Chrononhotonthologos (20 letters) is the longest word with only one repeated vowel.
Necropolis is a singular word ending in S that becomes plural when the S is removed.
Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random and being guided for the day by whatever verse they see first.
Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest word consisting entirely of alternating vowels and consonants.
"Tautonyms" are scientific names for which the genus and species are the same.

Some Questions:

(Easy) What word is an anagram of itself?

(Not so much) Thomas Urquhart created a language which consisted entirely of what?

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1. Stifle yourself!

:P

[Dr. Strange]

2. Score!

Nice to see you're branching out from nipplology!

Keep me abreast of things.

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3. TTFN

[theredpen]

4. I gave up Bibliomancy after I ended up picking Acts 2:15

"Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o'clock in the morning."

Thanks, Jesus, now I have to wait until after 9AM? Why get up in the first fucking place?

[CorpGovActivist]

5. On spec: spelunker and dongle.

Writing entries for a rhyming dictionary.

:9

[Dr. Strange]

6. The words are English...

but the meaning eludes me...

[CorpGovActivist]

7. Spelunkers go caving. Some are gay, some are straight, some are bi.

But they all go caving.

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Dongles are little dangly things that plug into computers, as adaptors.

The reason matters less than the rhyme for a rhyming dictionary, but if you know the meaning, it helps spark better riffs.

- Dave

[Dr. Strange]

9. So you're saying "spelunker" and "dongles" rhyme?

Inconceivable.

[CorpGovActivist]

10. No. But those two words are among those I've been assigned.

[Dr. Strange]

11. Assigned...

meaning you have to find words that rhyme with them?

[CorpGovActivist]

17. Words, phrases, near-rhymes...

... with a high premium being placed on poignancy, levity, etc.

Big business, actually: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rhyming+dictionary

Lots of songwriters live and die by them, for instance.

Word-lovers both contribute to and consume these resources. The circle of life is complete.

[TZ]

12. I do not think you know the meaning of that word

or that one or that one....:)
Honestly, this is one of the few posts around here that honest to god I have no friggen clue what you are talking about:shrug:

Looks like someone is moving up in the world intellectually to....about 12th grade....

[CorpGovActivist]

8. define: "word" on Google

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+spelunker

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+dongle

Handy.

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13. Rhymes?

[Dr. Strange]

14. Nope.

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15. Two word guess: Two letters?

:shrug:

[Dr. Strange]

16. Nope.

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19. Last guess: Fiction

[Dr. Strange]

21. Nopey. Perhaps I'll provide some clues.

ABBA (who performed "SOS")

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22. Every spoken line would be a palindrome?

Or, he invented Swedish? :shrug:

[Dr. Strange]

23. Palindromes, yes.

Not so much the Swedish thing.

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. Stifle and uniquely symbolically-defined phonemes with mathematical significance

That's the best I can do to summarize it in a subject line.

[Dr. Strange]

20. Stifle is correct.

And while he was interested in uniquely symbolically-defined phonemes with mathematical significance, that's not the language he was creating. (The interesting thing here is that I don't think you can find it on the internet. I learned about it in a Ripley's Believe It or Not book.)