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Germany is the land of Oktoberfest, Christmas markets, and super literal compound words like Glühbirne (“glow pear,” a.k.a. “lightbulb”) and Baumwolle (“tree wool,” otherwise known as cotton).

Compound words are made up of two parts of speech. For example, the compound noun handkerchief is made up of two nouns: hand + kerchief. Semantically, compound words are very interesting, since their ...

24 Words That Don’t Mean What You Think They Do Some words are said together so often that many people think they're a single word—but they're not. Or at least not all of the time. The confusing ...

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Some holiday words have more than one meaning, like "trim" the tree. And some meanings have more than one word, like "gift" ...

Ok. That is quite impressive, a starfish! What's next I wonder? A foot and a ball. Ah. I think I see a pattern emerging. It's a football. Some snow and a man.

You are given a compound word and a clue. The answer is another compound word whose halves rhyme, respectively, with the halves of the original compound word. For example, given "lamplight," with the ...