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English words that can be only used as nouns

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Is there a linguistic term for apologetic prefacing?

terminology comparative-linguistics sociolinguistics

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Name for seemingly incomplete sentences

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Is there a phrase for someone being ashamed of, or self-conscious about their accent when moving to another region?

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Did any linguists try to popularize “casus causativus”, to rectify the mistranslated “accusative”?

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Clarification of Isochrony Definition

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The notion of categorization in phonetics

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What is “H5” in Egyptian?

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Linguistic term to describe the “hash” of a word

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When you think one word, but write another, similar sounding word?

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What is the term for the role of “believe”, “think”, and “feel” in a sentence?

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Short words that change based on their proximity to other vowels

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Formal terms for pronunciations of loanwords in source and recipient languages?

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Is etymology considered part of linguistics or a separate field outside the scope of linguistics?

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