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| appellation | a name or title that distinguishes or identifies |
| diphthong | a speech sound that consists of either two vowels or a vowel and a semi vowel contained in a single syllable |
| eponym | a person for whom something is or is thought to be named |
| linguistics | the study of human speech, especially its components, structure, and nature and how it changes |
| neologism | a newly made up word, phrase, or expression |
| parlance | a particular manner or kind of speech |
| patois | a dialect other than is standard of a language; a distintive language of a special group |
| polyglot | consisting of many groups speaking many languages |
| solecism | the ungrammatical usage of a word or construction of a sentence |
| vulgar | spoken or used by the common people; lacking taste or delicacy; conspicuous or excessive |
