| A | B |
|---|
| Appellation | a title or a name that identifies |
| Diphthong | a speech sound that consists of two vowels |
| Eponym | a person for whom something is named |
| Linguistics | the study of speech |
| Neologism | a newly made-up word or expression |
| Parlance | a particular manner or kind of speech |
| Patois | a nonstandard dialect of a language |
| Polyglot | of many groups speaking different languages |
| Solecism | the ungrammatical usage of a word |
| Vulgar | spoken by the common people |
