Did you know that English is supremely well-suited to puzzle writing? Some languages just don't have many word puzzles like crosswords (such as many Asian languages). English is so good for word play, puns, and puzzles because it has huge redundancy — there are generally lots of different ways of expressing the same general idea. For example, if you want to say you're happy , you could also say you're : cheerful, delighted, carefree, cheery , merry , joyful , jovial , jolly, gleeful, smiling, lighthearted, pleased, contented, gratified, bouyant, radiant, sunny, blithe, sunny, joyous, chirpy, elated, over the moon, tickled pink, on a high, happy as a clam, or even jocund, and that is only half of the synonyms for happy ! You never need be lost for words! The full English vocabulary is also massive. It is probable that English has more words in it than any other language (see what the Oxford Dictionary bods have to say on this subject...
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