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Every idiom you use without thinking meant something literal once. Some of those meanings are strange. @jessamess scored 384 in Languages, Grammar & Idioms on Outlier Trivia. Can you beat it?

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1Language › Languages of the WorldEasyWhat does the Spanish word "gato" mean?Wrong4.3s0
2Language › Alphabets & ScriptsEasyWhich letter is the least frequently used in ordinary written English?Wrong2.5s0
3Language › LinguisticsHardThe quip that a language is a dialect with an army and a navy is associated with which scholar?Wrong8.8s0
4Language › LinguisticsHardThe term diglossia was popularised in a 1959 paper by which linguist?Wrong5.7s0
5Language › LinguisticsHardWilliam Labov's famous New York department store study tracked which sound?Wrong8.7s0
6Language › GrammarMediumIn 'She ran quickly', what part of speech is 'quickly'?Right0.8s+100
7Language › LinguisticsMediumWhat is a word that reads the same backward and forward called?Right2.8s+99
8Language › Alphabets & ScriptsVery hardWhich nineteenth-century reformer standardised Serbian and overhauled its alphabet?Right9.4s+89
9Language › LinguisticsExpertNikolai Trubetzkoy's "Grundzuge der Phonologie" is a founding work of which field?Right4.7s+96
10Language › TypographyMediumIn typography, "leading" refers to what?Wrong9.4s0