Mutual intelligibility
The Tunisian and Libyan varieties of this language are considered mutually intelligible for 68–70% of sentences
What is Arabic?
One version of this word’s etymology suggests that it comes from the indigenous people of Tabasco, Mexico, who smoked it.
What is tabacco?
One of these is a on keyboard key, but its pair does not indicate adding something.
What are delete and lete?
This large antlered animal’s plural is the same as its singular form
What is/are moose?
Faff around
What is mess around/do inefficiently?
These three languages are descended from Old Norse, and are a popular example of mutual intelligibility
What are Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish
Traditionally used more for warmth, nowadays, you might might bring this out on a rare rainy day in SoCal.
What is a poncho?
Through back-formation, the pair in this set has actually become used on apps like TikTok, and could refer to someone who is enthusiastic and outgoing
What are nonchalant and chalant?
This weird plural of this large animal sounds a lot like the word’s reconstructed Proto-Indo-European root *uks-en-, translated as 'male animal'.
What is ox/oxen?
Bob’s your Uncle
What is "there you go", "it's that simple" (or something similar)
Polish, Czech, and Slovak are three mutually intelligible languages of what language group?
What is Slavic/What are Slavic languages?
Despite uncertainty about this word's Nahuatl origin, there is some agreement that it likely derives from the Nawat word chikola:tl
What is chocolate?
You might postpone a meeting, but you wouldn’t typically “prepone” a meeting to earlier, unless you are speaking this dialect of English
What is Indian English?
If you had a bunch of these on your head it’d be pretty louse-y!
What are lice?
I’m knackered
What is “I’m hungry”
Manglish and Singlish are two mutually intelligible dialects (or creoles) of colloquial English, coming from these two countries in the Malay archipelago
What are Malaysia and Singapore?
The Incas nicknamed this word chisiya mama, which in Quechua means "mother of all grains" It was also a trendy gluten free grain not long ago.
What is Quinoa?
The pair in this set is more likely to be referred to blowing wind, as opposed to something pleasing
What are Disgusting and gusting
Unusually, the singular form of this word (referring the former students or graduates of a school, college, or university) has an “s” at the end, while the plural form does not
What are alumnus/alumni
To “pop your clogs”
What is “To die”
Uyghur is mutually intelligible with this other Turkic language that starts with a “U”
What is Uzbek?
This plant originates from Central/South America, but is unrelated to the similar-sounding South American country.
What is Chilli?
Even if your “prompt”ly prepared a speech, you wouldn’t use this pair of the unpaired English word meaning “things, such as speeches or gatherings, that are not prepared ahead of time”
What are promptu/impromptu
In an archaeological context, this is a deliberate mark made by scratching or engraving on a large surface such as a wall.
What is a graffito?
Go up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire
What is "go to bed?"