History of English
This is how you say Cancer in Spanish.
What is El Cancer?
English is most closely related to what other major language?
What is German?
This is an Australian colloquialism that means "girl"
What is "sheila?"
During the Norman Invasion of 1066, William the Conquerer brought this language to England.
What is French?
This is how you say cold in German.
What is Kalt?
This is why English and Spanish have similar words.
What is borrowing?
This word refers to how you pronounce a word.
What is accent?
This is an example of a word that we borrowed from the Australian version of English.
What is boomerang, walkabout, or nugget.
This is an English word that was borrowed from French.
What is Garage, Perfume, Judge, Jury, Justice, Beef, Mutton, Pork...
This is how you say wonder in German.
What is Wunder?
The Romance Languages are all based off of this ancient language...
What is Latin?
This word refers to a non-standard version of a language that is spoken by a specific group of people.
What is dialect?
In this U.S. state people refer to a water fountain as a "bubbler."
What is Wisconsin?
This is how you say "no" in French.
What is "no"
This language is closely related to Spanish.
What is French, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Romansh, and Catalan...
This is a non-standard word or phrase that is used by a certain group of people.
What is a colloquialism?
This is the name of the standard form of pronunciation in Britain.
What is Received Pronunciation?
This is how you say "pig dog" in German!
What is schveinhund?
These are the five Romance Languages.
What are Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian?
This is a line on a map that shows where different words are spoken.
What is an isogloss?
This is the state fish of Hawaii!
What is the humuhumunukunukuapua'ah