Linguistics

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