Linguists
Described language as "the dress of thought"
Who was Samuel Johnson?
You're breaking my heart, you're shaking my confidence daily.
Who is Cecilia?
Sentence structure: sentence lacking subject or predicate
Minor sentence
Fuses two words keeping elements of each eg whimperative, fugly, brunch
Blend
The final season of popular HBO series Succession began this week. How many seasons will the show have run for when it finally wraps up?
4
Who is David Crystal?
And noone dared to stir...
What?
Passive
A play on words for dads? eg Kid at day care centre in trouble with police for resisting a rest?
Pun
Labor claimed an election victory in New South Wales to form government there for the first time in how many years?
12
Professor of Linguistics at Monash University
Who is Kate Burridge?
Theme song to 'Watership Down'
Bright Eyes
Signalled by ... or else nothing at all?
Ellipsis
snap crackle and pop?
onomatopoeic
Which Star Wars actor is now the voice of Ukraine's air raid alert app?
Mark Hamill
Wrote 'Because Internet'
Who is Gretchen McCulloch?
"I will lay me down"
What like?
A bridge over troubled water
A thought set aside?
Parenthesis
The process by which one sound is made similar in its place or manner of articulation to a neighbouring sound.
Assimilation
A popular energy drink promoted (and partly owned) by social media influencers KSI and Logan Paul has been banned in a number of Australian schools. What is the drink called?
Prime
The American 'father' of linguistics?
Who is Noam Chomsky?
Sportsman who "hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest"?
The Boxer
If you have two independent clauses combined with one or more subordinate clauses, what have you got?
A compound-complex sentence
Highest modality modal with imperative feel?
Must
Australia has named a squad of 15 for the upcoming Women's Ashes in England. Who will captain the team?
Meg Lanning