Classist Overtones
Languages such as Russian, German, and Latin have these three noun classes--one more than related Spanish and French.
What are Masculine, Feminine, and Neuter?
caballo
What is Spanish?
This name of Hebrew origin begs a question it happens to rhyme withː "Who is like El (God)?"
What is Michael?
Sometimes one letter just isn't enoughǃ Examples of this include 'sch' or 'tch' in English, 'gli' in Italian, and 'dzs' in Hungarian.
What is a trigraph?
The three current (24/25) LLC officers.
Who are Jordan C, Jordan M, and Fisher?
English historically had three noun classes. Today these are effectively only preserved in this part of speech.
What are pronouns (he/she/it)?
pferd
What is German?
This name, borrowed from Gaelic, ultimately derives from the same Hebrew word as John.
What is Sean?
As opposed to Phonetic.
What is Orthographic?
Mizzou was founded this year, making it the first public university west of the Mississippi.
What is 1839?
MU students are likely familiar with this language family famous for its highly complex noun class system--often involving upwards of 15 distinct genders.
What is Bantu?
aśva; अश्व
What is Sanskrit?
This name of Hebrew origin means 'to flow down' or 'descend'. A fitting title, given its watery namesake.
What is Jordan?
Modern printings of Old English texts maintain the letters thorn (þ) and eth (ð), but they generally replace this letter with its modern equivalent to prevent confusion.
What is Wynn (ƿ)?
Preventing confusion between p, þ, and ƿ
Four of the colleges at Mizzou.
What are: A&S, CAFNR, Business, Law, Engineering, Education, Health Sciences, Honors, Journalism, Medicine, Nursing, Veterinary Medicine?
This term, which has been adapted to many other contexts outside of Linguistics, is often considered synonymous with noun class, though some linguistics draw a distinction.
What is gender?
farasi
What is Swahili?
What is Sawyer?
The name of this writing system found on the Indian subcontinent translates (roughly) to "City of the gods."
What is Devanagari; देवनागरी?
[Deva (god) + nāgarī (city, urban)]
The size of Mizzou's student body (closest gets it).
What is 31,543?
The bold title of George Lakoff's semi-famous text exploring how grammatical categories affect cognition was inspired by the feminine noun class of Dyirbal.
What is 'Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things'?
kabayo
What is Tagalog/Filipino?
This name derives from the Old-Norse word for 'gardener', though you may associate it more with Low Places.
What is Garth?
Two of the three Japanese writing systems.
What are Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana?
The first president of Mizzou's LLC.
Who is Chaeli?