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A reference companion to the museum — curated topic sections that go deeper on the subjects behind the collection. Every entry, image, and fact is drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
Word Games & Puzzles
The games built from letters — crosswords and word searches, Scrabble and Boggle, anagrams and hangman, spelling bees, rebuses, and the grid puzzles beside them.
12 entriesWriting & the Alphabet
How words are set down — the alphabet and calligraphy, typography and the printing press, movable type, manuscripts, fountain pens, and the book.
12 entriesWordplay & Rhetoric
Words at play — puns and palindromes, alliteration and onomatopoeia, acrostics and riddles, limericks and haiku, portmanteaus and spoonerisms.
10 entriesGrammar & Style
The craft of clear writing — editing and copy editing, cursive and shorthand, homophones and acronyms, the ampersand, the essay, and the reference shelf.
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