General Language Facts
Sounds
Pronunciation
Time Periods/Changes
Miscellaneous
100
This is a unique sound to the English language
What is "th"?
100
This would be how the word "often" is correctly pronounced
What is "offen"?
100
The way in which Queen Elizabeth would have said the word “boil”
What is "byle"?
100
The change over time where vowel sounds changed by becoming increasingly tense
What is the Great Vowel Shift?
100
The words "hegemony" and "orthoepy" are examples of this
What is inconsistent pronunciation or words with multiple pronunciations?
200
The name of the vowel that can show a variation in the technical vowel sound
What is schwa?
200
Two words with the suffix -eard that are similarly spelled but sound different
What is beard and heard?
200
"Aldges gedder" is how many would actually say this phrase
What is "I'll just get her"?
200
When looking at Establishment, "stand" used to be spelled like this
What is "stad"?
200
These two vowels were unchanged during the Great Vowel Shift
What is the e in "bed" and the i in "sit"?
300
The country where the "tch" sound was adopted from
What is France?
300
A word meaning "women" and its true spelling AND its phonetic spelling
What is ladies and laties?
300
These people are known for pronouncing the "er" in words as "ar"
What are Elizabethans?
300
The "ar" to "er" pronunciation change was still taking place up until this time period
What is the 19th century?
300
Why was the word "bath" pronounced as "bahth" and the word "dance" pronounced as "dahnce" in 18th century upper class England.
What is pronouncing words in a certain way because they are fashionable.
400
The number of different sounds that can be found in the English language
What is 44-52?
400
The words "mints" and "mince" are an example of this
What is variance of pronunciation?
400
An example of this is "Stralia"
What is a slur?
400
The word "hath" would have been pronounced this way from 1600-1650
What is "has"?
400
Waistcoat being pronounced as "wess-kit" is an example of what?
What is pronunciation following spelling?
500
Good bye is an example of these two literary elements
What is aphesis and apocope?
500
The word "fragile" is an example of this
What is an American Dead schwa?
500
"Meejutly" is an example of this
What is a British Cutoff?
500
This happens and differentiates between nouns and verbs such as "record"
What are stress changes?
500
In which country is it fashionable to pronounce "eat" as "et"?
What is England
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