Across
- 4. is also a rhetorical device in which a speaker uses direct address to hail an abstract idea,absent person, or a personification
- 7. mishearings of words
- 9. zombie nouns
- 10. is an archaic-sounding mix of the Latin crux for cross, verbum for word, and the French suffix -iste.
Down
- 1. an inversion of word order
- 2. a form that is derived from a verb but that functions as a noun
- 3. breaks the rules of word boundaries by interrupting whole words with other words for emphasis, humor, or other effect
- 5. believe in the strength, structure, and sanity offered by standard English rules
- 6. believe that unruly language is in its purest and loveliest form
- 8. one part of speech functions as another and most commonly manifests as a verb used as a noun or a noun used as a verb