The secret of nym

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Jun 23, 2012 4:00 PMNov 20, 2019 12:49 AM

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I'm a writer, and writers love words. We like playing with them. Writing them, rearranging then, substituting for them, playing around with rhyme and cadence and structure. It's why I love doing crossword puzzles, and especially why I love puns -- layering double meanings into just a few words is an intellectual challenge as well as an exercise in humor. So I was thinking about words recently, looking for a synonym of a word, when I realized something:

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