7 posts tagged with grammar and linguistics (View popular tags)

Do fish fish fish fish fish fish fish? [more inside]
posted on Mar 5, 2008 - 35 answers

What are some other examples of using 'an' in front of a non-vowel like some do with 'an historic...'? [more inside]
posted on Feb 22, 2008 - 40 answers

when should I say 'african american' and when 'black' ? [more inside]
posted on Nov 16, 2007 - 70 answers

I need . . . adjectives! Is there a *scannable* online dictionary or some way in which I can search through giant lists just for the adjectives? [more inside]
posted on Oct 18, 2007 - 9 answers

Is there a term for mangling two words to create a new word or term? [more inside]
posted on Jul 17, 2007 - 28 answers

Hawaiian has only eight consonants. Pirahã purportedly has even fewer phonemes and no numerals. What other languages have properties which would be considered unusual by Indo-European language speakers?
posted on Nov 16, 2006 - 33 answers

Which is correct, and why? (a) "None of those were..." (b) "None of those was..." [more inside]
posted on Jul 14, 2005 - 28 answers