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The ten questions
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- 1Language › Languages of the WorldEasyWhat does the Spanish word "gato" mean?Right1.1s+100
- 2Language › Alphabets & ScriptsEasyWhich letter is the least frequently used in ordinary written English?Wrong4.0s0
- 3Language › LinguisticsHardThe quip that a language is a dialect with an army and a navy is associated with which scholar?Right2.3s+100
- 4Language › LinguisticsHardThe term diglossia was popularised in a 1959 paper by which linguist?Right3.1s+98
- 5Language › LinguisticsHardWilliam Labov's famous New York department store study tracked which sound?Wrong4.7s0
- 6Language › GrammarMediumIn 'She ran quickly', what part of speech is 'quickly'?Right2.1s+100
- 7Language › LinguisticsMediumWhat is a word that reads the same backward and forward called?Right1.4s+100
- 8Language › Alphabets & ScriptsVery hardWhich nineteenth-century reformer standardised Serbian and overhauled its alphabet?Wrong3.0s0
- 9Language › LinguisticsExpertNikolai Trubetzkoy's "Grundzuge der Phonologie" is a founding work of which field?Wrong8.4s0
- 10Language › TypographyMediumIn typography, "leading" refers to what?Wrong6.6s0