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- 05:15, 27 October 2020 Oral consonant (hist) [250 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''oral consonant''' is a consonant sound made with sound projected through the oral cavity. The vast majority of English consonants are oral consonants; contra...")
- 05:10, 27 October 2020 Excuse (hist) [302 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''excuse''' is an explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wi...")
- 02:50, 27 October 2020 Was going to (hist) [1,094 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Was going to''' is an English lexical-grammatical structure; the past tense of going to, though which has some subtle differences in meaning to "going to". An...")
- 15:16, 26 October 2020 Abram de Swaan (hist) [267 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Abram de Swaan''' is a Dutch sociologist, known for his studies of the global language system. == External links == * [https://deswaan.com/?lang=en Personal website]...")
- 13:55, 26 October 2020 Alpha (hist) [334 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Alpha''' is the first letter of the Greek alphabet - it is a vowel letter equivalent to Latin alphabet A. <center><font size=1000%>Α α</font></center> I...")
- 04:56, 26 October 2020 Statistical hypothesis testing (hist) [190 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Statistical hypothesis testing''' is a method of statistical inference whereby a statistical hypothesis is tested. category:index category:statistics|hypot...")
- 03:53, 26 October 2020 Latin alpha (hist) [196 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Latin alpha''' is a variant on the letter A: <font size=100%><center>Ɑ ɑ</center></font> It's used in IPA to represent an open back unrounded vowel sound....")
- 03:10, 26 October 2020 Zeta (hist) [511 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Zeta''' /zi:tə/ is a letter of the Greek alphabet; it is the 6th letter and the fourth consonant letter, equivalent to the Latin alphabet letter Z. <center><f...")
- 14:45, 25 October 2020 Kill (hist) [482 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Kill''' is an English verb meaning "to cause the death of something." Kill forms an ergative verb pair with ''die''. Kill is a lexical verb; specifi...")
- 14:34, 25 October 2020 Phi (hist) [312 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Phi''' is a letter of the Greek alphabet<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi</ref> <center><font size=1000%>Φ, φ or ϕ</font></center> In Greek loanwords to Engli...")
- 05:54, 23 October 2020 Eau (hist) [525 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Eau''' is an English vowel trigraph consisting of E+A+U. category:vowel trigraphs category:index")
- 05:43, 23 October 2020 Sch (hist) [426 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Sch''' is a letter combination, S+C+H that can in different words be either a consonant trigraph or a representation of the consonant cluster /sk/....")
- 04:56, 23 October 2020 Tch (hist) [645 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Tch''' is an English consonant trigraph consisting of T+Ch. This is always found in coda position; never found in onset position. This reliably re...")
- 03:46, 23 October 2020 IPA number (hist) [492 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''IPA number''' is a number assigned to each sound within the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) For example, the unvoiced dental fricative /θ/ is number 130...")
- 02:40, 23 October 2020 Muzzy Comes Back (hist) [296 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''''Muzzy Comes Back''''' is a sequel to the TV series ''Muzzy in Gondoland'' featuring the character Muzzy<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzy_Comes_Back</ref>...")
- 14:57, 22 October 2020 Jumbled sentence exercise (hist) [494 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''jumbled sentence exercise''' or '''scrambled sentence exercise''' <ref>Any other names?</ref> is a type of exercise used in foreign language learning whereby the...")
- 06:50, 22 October 2020 Activism (hist) [623 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Activism''' /ˈæk.tə.vɪzm/ consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct, or intervene in social, political, economic, or environmental reform with the desire to make c...")
- 06:05, 22 October 2020 Diplomacy (hist) [429 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Diplomacy''' is the practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of states or groups, so to influence the decisions and conduct of foreign governments throug...")
- 05:25, 22 October 2020 Eigh (hist) [543 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Eigh''' is an English vowel tetragraph. It is quite common<ref>https://www.thefreedictionary.com/words-containing-eigh</ref> and reliably represents the dipthong...")
- 05:15, 22 October 2020 Aigh (hist) [489 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Aigh''' is an English vowel tetragraph. aigh is mostly found in the word ''straight'', plus derived compounds such as ''straightforward''. It can be considered a...")
- 03:38, 22 October 2020 Ough (hist) [914 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Ough''' is an English vowel tetragraph. '''ough''' has nine different pronunciations: */ɔː/: thought, bought, sought, ought, fought, nought *[...")
- 03:35, 22 October 2020 Tetragraph (hist) [275 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''tetragraph''' <ref>sometimes bizarrely called a "quadgraph"</ref> is a phonogram consisting of four letters. These occur in English; they are mainly vowel tetr...")
- 03:33, 22 October 2020 Consonant tetragraph (hist) [263 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''consonant tetragraph''' is a tetragraph representing a consonant sound. These are extremely rare in English, but do occur, namely: phth, chth and s...")
- 03:30, 22 October 2020 Vowel tetragraph (hist) [236 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''vowel tetragraph''' is a tetragraph that represents a vowel sound. Examples in English include: * aigh * eigh * ough (infamous) category:tetr...")
- 03:25, 22 October 2020 Igh (hist) [357 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Igh''' is an English vowel trigraph consisting of the letters I+G+H. It always makes the diphthong /aɪ/ sound in words like blight, fight, light,...")
- 03:15, 22 October 2020 Consonant trigraph (hist) [327 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''consonant trigraph''' is a trigraph representing a consonant sound category:trigraphs category:index")
- 03:12, 22 October 2020 Vowel trigraph (hist) [323 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''vowel trigraph''' is a trigraph representing a vowel sound. category:trigraphs category:index")
- 03:05, 22 October 2020 Ps (hist) [659 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Ps''' is an English digraph formed of the letters P and S. When this occurs in onset position, it indicates Ancient Greek etymology, a translit...")
- 02:23, 22 October 2020 Psi (hist) [277 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Psi''' (/'saɪ/) is a letter of the Greek alphabet. <center><font size=100%?>Ψ ψ</center></font> It's commonly used as a motif for psychology. category:G...")
- 02:11, 22 October 2020 Delta (hist) [362 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Disambiguation: For the Cambridge qualification see DELTA. '''Delta''' /ˈdel.tə/ is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, equivalent to the Latin alphabet...")
- 09:14, 21 October 2020 Cognition (hist) [238 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Cognition''' is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogni...")
- 05:48, 21 October 2020 Parody (hist) [332 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''parody''' is "A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony".<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parody</ref> == References ==...")
- 05:33, 21 October 2020 Linguicide (hist) [337 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Linguicide''' is language death that occurs as a result of political policies. The term is somewhat loaded, suggesting the killing or murder of a language by politicia...")
- 05:01, 21 October 2020 Illustration (hist) [248 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''illustration''' is a picture within print media that serves to add information to the text. They can help provide context. Sometimes key information is...")
- 02:47, 21 October 2020 Turned V (hist) [285 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Turned V''' is a glyph consisting of an upside down letter V. <center><font size=100%>Ʌ ʌ</center></font> The upper case letter resembles the letter A without t...")
- 02:23, 21 October 2020 Epsilon (hist) [330 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Epsilon''' is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, equivalent to the Latin alphabet letter E. <center><font size=1000%>Ε ε</center></f...")
- 14:32, 20 October 2020 Back vowel (hist) [304 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A ''back vowel''' is a vowel sound with full vowel backness. * Close back rounded vowel /u/ * Near-close near-back rounded vowel /ʊ/ * Open-mid back unroun...")
- 14:17, 20 October 2020 Central vowel (hist) [269 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''central vowel''' is a vowel sound with central vowel backness. The schwa sound (or mid-central vowel) /ə/ and the Open-mid central unrounded vowel /...")
- 14:06, 20 October 2020 Front vowel (hist) [374 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''front vowel''' is a vowel sound made at the front of the mouth, that is vowel backness of "front". There are three of these in the standard English phoneme]]s:...")
- 13:51, 20 October 2020 Close vowel (hist) [293 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''close vowel''' /ˈkləʊs ˈvaʊl/ is a vowel sound with high vowel height. Examples in the standard English phonemes are: * Close front unrounded vowel...")
- 05:17, 20 October 2020 Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (hist) [680 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence''', often known as the '''Sagan standard''', is an aphorism which states an important principle of scientific scep...")
- 01:47, 20 October 2020 Vowel height (hist) [498 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Vowel height''' is a quality of vowel sounds, IPA identifies 7 degrees of vowel height: * close (high) * near-close (near-high) * close-mid (high-mid) * mid (tru...")
- 15:05, 19 October 2020 Vowel roundedness (hist) [175 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Vowel roundedness''' is the extent to which vowel sounds are pronounced with the lips rounded or spread. category:index Roundedness") originally created as "Vowel roundness"
- 14:47, 19 October 2020 Vowel backness (hist) [468 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Vowel backness''' concerns the position of the tongue during the articulation of a vowel sound relative to the back of the mouth IPA defines five degr...")
- 11:46, 19 October 2020 Vowel chart (hist) [603 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''vowel chart''' or '''vowel diagram''' is a schematic arrangement of the vowel sounds. Generally, the vertical axis on the diagram denotes the vowel closeness, with c...")
- 11:26, 19 October 2020 Intrinsic motivation (hist) [482 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' Intrinsic motivation''' is motivation that is intrinsic, i.e. it "comes from within oneself", for example genuine interest in a subject of study <ref>https://dictionar...")
- 05:41, 19 October 2020 Dd (hist) [749 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Dd''' is an English consonant digraph consisting of double D. In English, it is typically the result of consonant doubling, e.g. ''plod'' can be inflec...")
- 04:52, 19 October 2020 Ff (hist) [607 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Ff''' is an English consonant digraph. It reliably represents the unvoiced labiodental fricative /f/ sound. Note the difference in spelling between the prepos...")
- 05:43, 16 October 2020 Incentive (hist) [323 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''incentive''' (/ɪnˈsentɪv/) is an external motivator.<ref>https://dictionary.apa.org/incentive</ref> There are incentives to foreign language learning. Teachers...")
- 15:02, 14 October 2020 Subfield (hist) [183 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''subfield''' is a field that is itself part of a broader field. A subfield may be sub-part of 2 otherwise non-overlapping fields. category:fields category...")
