Across
- 2. "This is a ______. Now there are two of them"
- 5. likely to confuse outsiders
- 10. /l/ or /r/
- 11. like a suffix or prefix
- 12. "to be" verb
- 14. Black Language portmanteau
- 15. a collection of words
- 16. Middle English tale-teller
- 18. could be a consonant or vowel
- 20. ancestor of Black Language, maybe
- 22. from the nose
- 23. sentence arrangement
Down
- 1. linguistic fingerprint
- 3. fish, for George Bernard Shaw
- 4. language ____ (accent, dialect, language)
- 6. pre-creole (not a bird)
- 7. two vowel sounds together
- 8. an alphabet or a beverage
- 9. habitual ____ (shows a tendency to)
- 13. grammar police
- 15. he studied on the fourth floor
- 17. warrior of Old English
- 19. father of modern linguistics, familiarly
- 21. "cool" or "rizz," for example
