Lexiconfusion

Lexiconfusion, or – to give it its full title – Bennett & Teed’s Illustrated Dictionary of Homographs, is an illustrated lexicographical brain teaser that appears each Saturday in the UK’s Times Magazine. In other words, it’s a picture quiz.

Each week Mr Teed unearths another obscure homograph (by which we mean a word that has more than one meaning) from the mighty Lexicon, and it falls to Mr Bennett to find a visual interpretation of the two meanings that might be mildly amusing whilst Mr Teed warms his feet beside the fire and catches a well-earned rest. The resultant joining, or ‘fusing’, of the homograph’s definitions, brings to our sparse and ever-decreasing readership an intense feeling of frustration, confusion, and downright dislike for both Bennett and Teed.