A list of 45 words by adjusting.
- subjunctive appears on 15 other lists
- grammar appears on 25 other lists
- accent appears on 30 other lists
- adjective appears on 16 other lists
- adverb appears on 15 other lists
- bilingual appears on 14 other lists
- case appears on 35 other lists
- conjugation appears on 17 other lists
- consonant appears on 35 other lists
- creole appears on 16 other lists
- dialect appears on 20 other lists
- diphthong appears on 64 other lists
- vowel appears on 14 other lists
- verb appears on 20 other lists
- tone appears on 36 other lists
- tonal appears on 6 other lists
- tense appears on 23 other lists
- gender appears on 24 other lists
- genitive appears on 13 other lists
- infinitive appears on 5 other lists
- linguistics appears on 35 other lists
- pidgin appears on 24 other lists
- mood appears on 22 other lists
- noun appears on 20 other lists
- number appears on 26 other lists
- pronoun appears on 15 other lists
- pronunciation appears on 21 other lists
- syntax appears on 86 other lists
- semantics appears on 49 other lists
- stative appears on 8 other lists
- corpus appears on 42 other lists
- assimilation appears on 10 other lists
- dissimilation appears on 2 other lists
- metathesis appears on 23 other lists
- apocope appears on 57 other lists
- declension appears on 38 other lists
- syncope appears on 57 other lists
- guttural appears on 36 other lists
- alveolar appears on 12 other lists
- lexicon appears on 143 other lists
- uvular appears on 4 other lists
- velar appears on 7 other lists
- palatal appears on 3 other lists
- labiodental appears on 3 other lists
- fricative appears on 52 other lists

adjusting Thanks for those. I don't think lisguistic jargon is any more or less pretentious than any other technical field. Mar 26, 2007
alguien Not to mention fricative, labiodental, guttural, palatal, alveolar, velar, uvular, pharyngeal. The lexicon of linguistic terms is truly incomprehensible and pretentious. It's as if linguists want to make sure no one outside of linguistics can understand what they're talking about. Mar 26, 2007
alguien What about assimilation, dissimilation, metathesis, apocope, syncope, palatalization, declension? Mar 26, 2007