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9 Cards in this Set
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appelation
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a name or title that distinguishes or identifies
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diphthong
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a speech sound that consists of either two vowels or a vowel and a semivowel contained in a single syllable
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eponym
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a person for whom something is or is thought to be named
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linguistics
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the study of human speech
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neologism
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a newly made-up word,phrase expression
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parlance
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a manner or kind of speech
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patois
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a dialect other than the standard dialect of a language, especially a regional or uneducated form of speech
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solecism
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the ungrammatical usage of a word or construction of a sentence
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vulgar
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spoken by the common people rather than literary, cultured, or leanred people
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