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Examples of ‘kangaroo etymologies’ that actually happened

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What is Double Zero Grade?

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We typically say rates are 'hiked' and cuts are 'swingeing' - is there a term to describe this?

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Is the head function also called nucleus, or is nucleus a subtype of head?

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Emphasis through capitalizing the first letters of words

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Contemporary words used in a cultural text set in another era

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What subdiscipline of linguistics studies the relationship between writing and pronunciation?

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Marking TAM without an explicit TAM marker

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Is there a term when two words have swapped definitions in one language or dialect compared to another?

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What are Georgian harmonic clusters phonetically?

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To what extent can Jakobson's communicative functions be applied to an analysis of written texts?

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I am trying to remember the name of a tool I used in college for a phonetics project

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What is the name for this phenomenon, and what are some other examples of it?

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What is a psych verb?

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