Linguistics, Speech & Semantics
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- Guide to British-English Spelling for Americans
- Accent Rules for Spanish
- Attack Of The Mutant Expressions
- Canadian Toponymy
- City Name Pronunciations in Illinois, USA
- Cruel Consonant Combos
- Dyslexia and the Mental Lexicon
- Estuary English
- French Pronunciation
- Geek Code
- Gender-Free Pronouns
- German Pronunciation
- How to Pronounce Turkish
- How to Speak Brummie
- Impossible Language Missions: A Brief Guide to Gellerese
- Jargon and its Siblings
- Language and Life - a Perspective on Species
- Linguistic Isolates
- Logical Fallacies in Everyday Use
- Makaton - a Method of Communication for Disabled People
- Mondegreens
- Nicknames
- Paradigms and Paradigm Shifts
- Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - The Longest Word
- Polari - the Secret Language
- Pronouncing British Placenames
- RP - Received Pronunciation
- Regional Dialects of the USA [7]
- So you want to Teach English as a Foreign Language
- Surviving Foreign Language Oral Examinations
- Glottal Stop
- Great Vowel Shift
- International Phonetic Alphabet
- Language of Snobbery
- Pinyin System - How to Pronounce Mandarin Chinese
- Strange Case of the Missing 'N'
- Tetragrammaton
- Thesaurus
- Why Villains in Movies Have English Accents
- Wieners, Frankfurters, Hamburgers and German Naming Conventions
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