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What does linguistics call sets of words with the same spelling, different (but perhaps related) meaning, and different emphasized syllables?

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What do you call a failed attempt to use the “standard” speech?

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how does one properly escape the context of a definition when writing one

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If you clumped all English words into synonyms, instead of word by word, how many unique concepts/definitions would there be in the English language?

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Definiteness and indefiniteness

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What is the name of the category that describes the ways a number can be read?

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Abstract objects: is this a linguistic term/concept?

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Argot vs Jargon

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Why are the names of languages always adjectives? (e.g. “English”, “French”, “Spanish”)

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Term for an adjective that refers to a specific property of a noun

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What is “H5” in Egyptian?

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How to find origin of a borrowed word?

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“It is _ that/who + verb.” pleonasm vs. “_ + verb.”

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Some questions about the basic concepts in semantics

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