There are a variety of reasons why your eyes may be irritated, and weâre arming you with the info you need to spot and treat the differences. Eye Allergies. Eye allergies (also referred to as allergic conjunctivitis) are the most common cause (link is external) of eye redness, itching, and excessive tearing.
The longest palindromic word in the Oxford English Dictionary is tattarrattat, coined by James Joyce in Ulysses for a knock on the door. The Guinness Book of Records gives detartrated, the past tense of detartrate, a somewhat contrived chemical term meaning to remove tartrates.
If you love word play, you probably know that a word â or longer piece of writing â that reads the same forward and backward is called a palindrome. But what do you call a word that spells another word backwards, or a word that looks the same upside down? When terms for these orthographic puzzlers didn't exist, logolologists (such as the authors of the books listed below) were happy to invent some. 1. A word in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once.