Linguistics Trivia Questions
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What is the 9-letter word for the study of a word's history?
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etymology
What is the Old English word that originally meant a piece of carbon glowing without fire?
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coal
What term, derived from the Greek for 'race discourse', refers to the history of a family?
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genealogy
What term describes similar-sounding words used incorrectly in place of the correct ones, and is associated with Norm Crosby?
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malapropism
What word for scowl is derived from the Old Irish 'sron' which means nose?
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frown
What language is also known as Cape Dutch?
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afrikaans
What is the name of the ancient Scandinavian language from which Icelandic, Faroese, and Swedish originated?
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old norse
Which language primarily evolved from the Zuid-Holland dialect of Dutch settlers in South Africa?
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afrikaans
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