Language
Most of the world’s languages follow this word order
Subject-object-verb (SOV)
This Berkey Creamery ice cream flavor is named after a former Penn State football coach
Peachy Paterno
This structure to the entrance of the school should not be walked under, unless you do not want to graduate from the University.
The Arch
This famous linguist is also a well-known social commentator and political activist.
Noam Chomsky
Racecar is an example of this type of word (one that is spelled the same forward and backward)
Palindrome
A controversial topic of debate diving Pennsylvanians, the sneaker is widely known as this type of sports shoe in most parts of the United States
Tennis shoes
The consensus is that this dining hall has the best cookies on campus
Waring (West)
This is the name of UGA’s current mascot.
Uga (/ˈʌɡə/)
This subdiscipline of linguistics is also well-known in kindergarten classrooms.
Phonetics
This famous fast food joint is known as “Macca’s” in Australia
McDonald’s
This Japanese writing system consists of borrowed characters from the Chinese writing system
Kanji
This is the name of Penn State’s fight song.
"Fight on, State"
This North Campus building, which houses a UGA debate team and is named after a famous Greek orator is the only building on UGA’s campus not owned by UGA.
Demosthenian Hall
This theorized language is the common ancestor of English, Italian, and German.
Proto Indo-European
How many days was the boat stuck in the Suez Canal?
6
Want to unstress? Try saying this sound of the International Phonetic Alphabet: /ə/
Schwa
Penn State was founded in this year
1855
This current home of UGA’s Linguistics Department, Gilbert Hall, was once this.
University Health Center
This subdiscipline of linguistics deals with prefixes, infixes, and suffixes.
Morphology
This common vegetable is commonly known as the Aubergine in England
Eggplant
This field is oftentimes called the “wastebasket” of linguistics
Pragmatics
Penn State played its first collegiate football game against this college.
Bucknell
This famous mountain dweller was the first mascot of UGA.
Billygoat
This cognitive module is posited as the solution to Plato’s Question, and is widely debated amongst linguists. It was originally posited under the umbrella of generative syntax.
Universal Grammar (UG)
This state is the northernmost state in the continental United States (states excluding Hawaii and Alaska)
North Dakota