"That's a great deal to make one word mean," Alice said in a thoughtful tone. "When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra."
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Friday, 19 April 2013

Enneagon


In geometry, an enneagon, also spelled eneagon,  is a polygon or plane figure with nine angles and nine sides; a nonagon.


Because nonagon and eneagon (with one initial n) have the same number of letters this word is sometimes used to trip up those doing crosswords!