July 10
2018
June 5
2018
I Love Steno Trivia Tuesday: Shakespeare-Invented Words
QUESTION: How many words did Shakespeare Invent?
ANSWER: According to the website Shakespeare Online, Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words.
Some of the words he coined are: swagger, academe, barefaced, compromise, frugal, skim milk, gust, impartial, blushing, courtship, eyeball, obsequiously, moonbeam, mountaineer, marketable, gloomy, equivocal, elbow, cold-blooded, buzzer, excitement, lackluster, radiance, fixture, circumstantial, hobnob, majestic, champion, birthplace, zany, gossip, bandit, luggage, blanket.
May 15
2018
I Love Steno Trivia Tuesday: The 7-Letter Word Comprised Of 10 Words
April 3
2018
I Love Steno Trivia Tuesday: The Longest Word In Alphabetical Order
December 12
2017
I Love Steno Tuesday Trivia: How Often Are New Words Added To The Dictionary?
QUESTION: How Often Are New Words Added To The Dictionary?
ANSWER: According to Grammarly, a new word is added into the dictionary every two hours. The grammar source states that, “During the course of the year, almost 4,000 new words are added.”
WOW! How’s that for dictionary building? Who can keep up with that?
October 10
2017
I Love Steno Trivia Tuesday: The Word With The Most Definitions
QUESTION: What English word has the most definitions.
ANSWER: Set. According to the Guinness World Records, the word “set” has 430 different meanings. Guinness World Records also states this concerning the word “set”: “The word commands the longest entry in the dictionary at 60,000 words, or 326,000 characters.”
September 12
2017
I Love Steno Trivia Tuesday: The Shortest Sentence
July 25
2017
I Love Steno Trivia Tuesday: The Septet Homophone
July 11
2017
I Love Steno Trivia Tuesday
May 23
2017
