A list of 45 words by adjusting.
- subjunctive appears on 13 other lists and has 1 comment
- grammar appears on 23 other lists and has 2 comments
- accent appears on 24 other lists and has 3 comments
- adjective appears on 11 other lists and has 14 comments
- adverb appears on 11 other lists and has 2 comments
- bilingual appears on 8 other lists
- case appears on 28 other lists and has 1 comment
- conjugation appears on 14 other lists and has 2 comments
- consonant appears on 27 other lists and has 4 comments
- creole appears on 15 other lists and has 1 comment
- dialect appears on 15 other lists
- diphthong appears on 58 other lists and has 9 comments
- vowel appears on 13 other lists and has 13 comments
- verb appears on 13 other lists and has 14 comments
- tone appears on 30 other lists and has 1 comment
- tonal appears on 5 other lists
- tense appears on 18 other lists
- gender appears on 19 other lists
- genitive appears on 10 other lists and has 6 comments
- infinitive appears on 4 other lists and has 6 comments
- linguistics appears on 29 other lists and has 1 comment
- pidgin appears on 23 other lists and has 1 comment
- mood appears on 15 other lists and has 2 comments
- noun appears on 15 other lists and has 1 comment
- number appears on 20 other lists and has 17 comments
- pronoun appears on 11 other lists and has 2 comments
- pronunciation appears on 16 other lists and has 9 comments
- syntax appears on 72 other lists
- semantics appears on 43 other lists
- stative appears on 6 other lists
- corpus appears on 28 other lists and has 2 comments
- assimilation appears on 8 other lists
- dissimilation appears on 2 other lists
- metathesis appears on 20 other lists and has 1 comment
- apocope appears on 45 other lists and has 7 comments
- declension appears on 31 other lists and has 3 comments
- syncope appears on 45 other lists and has 1 comment
- guttural appears on 27 other lists and has 3 comments
- alveolar appears on 10 other lists
- lexicon appears on 118 other lists and has 4 comments
- uvular appears on 4 other lists
- velar appears on 6 other lists and has 1 comment
- palatal appears on 3 other lists
- labiodental appears on 3 other lists
- fricative appears on 49 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