# The Atoz Game (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 24, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920 "2020-01-24T21:53:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 259
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**Language & Linguistics** Alphabet Brogue Cadence Dialect Esperanto Fricative Glottal stop Heterograph Ideogram Jargon Kwanyama Law I’ll admit I don’t really understand the term. It appears to describe a pattern of how consonants are pronounced in some languages, including Kwanyama. ---
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**Language & Linguistics** Alphabet Brogue Cadence Dialect Esperanto Fricative Glottal stop Heterograph Ideogram Jargon Kwanyama Law Labial ---
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**Language & Linguistics** Alphabet Brogue Cadence Dialect Esperanto Fricative Glottal stop Heterograph Ideogram Jargon Kwanyama Law Labial Metonymy ---
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**Language & Linguistics** Alphabet Brogue Cadence Dialect Esperanto Fricative Glottal stop Heterograph Ideogram Jargon Kwanyama Law Labial Metonymy Nasal ---
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**Language & Linguistics** Alphabet Brogue Cadence Dialect Esperanto Fricative Glottal stop Heterograph Ideogram Jargon Kwanyama Law Labial Metonymy Nasal Onomatopoeia ---
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**Language & Linguistics** Alphabet Brogue Cadence Dialect Esperanto Fricative Glottal stop Heterograph Ideogram Jargon Kwanyama Law Labial Metonymy Nasal Onomatopoeia Pidgin ---
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**Language & Linguistics** Alphabet Brogue Cadence Dialect Esperanto Fricative Glottal stop Heterograph Ideogram Jargon Kwanyama Law Labial Metonymy Nasal Onomatopoeia Pidgin Quantum linguistics ---
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**Language & Linguistics** Alphabet Brogue Cadence Dialect Esperanto Fricative Glottal stop Heterograph Ideogram Jargon Kwanyama Law Labial Metonymy Nasal Onomatopoeia Pidgin Quantum linguistics Rhetoric ---
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**Language & Linguistics** Alphabet Brogue Cadence Dialect Esperanto Fricative Glottal stop Heterograph Ideogram Jargon Kwanyama Law Labial Metonymy Nasal Onomatopoeia Pidgin Quantum linguistics Rhetoric Speech ---
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**Language & Linguistics** Alphabet Brogue Cadence Dialect Esperanto Fricative Glottal stop Heterograph Ideogram Jargon Kwanyama Law Labial Metonymy Nasal Onomatopoeia Pidgin Quantum linguistics Rhetoric Speech Thesaurus ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/5172 "2021-03-17T22:39:29Z")
**Language & Linguistics** Alphabet Brogue Cadence Dialect Esperanto Fricative Glottal stop Heterograph Ideogram Jargon Kwanyama Law Labial Metonymy Nasal Onomatopoeia Pidgin Quantum linguistics Rhetoric Speech Thesaurus Umlaut Or Ümlät ---
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**Language & Linguistics** Alphabet Brogue Cadence Dialect Esperanto Fricative Glottal stop Heterograph Ideogram Jargon Kwanyama Law Labial Metonymy Nasal Onomatopoeia Pidgin Quantum linguistics Rhetoric Speech Thesaurus Umlaut (Or Ümlät) Vocabulary ---
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**Language & Linguistics** Alphabet Brogue Cadence Dialect Esperanto Fricative Glottal stop Heterograph Ideogram Jargon Kwanyama Law Labial Metonymy Nasal Onomatopoeia Pidgin Quantum linguistics Rhetoric Speech Thesaurus Umlaut (Or Ümlät) Vocabulary Weasel words ---
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**Language & Linguistics** Alphabet Brogue Cadence Dialect Esperanto Fricative Glottal stop Heterograph Ideogram Jargon Kwanyama Law Labial Metonymy Nasal Onomatopoeia Pidgin Quantum linguistics Rhetoric Speech Thesaurus Umlaut Vocabulary Weasel words Xenogram Applying the rules of one language on a different language. Like the rule about not ending a sentence with a preposition; this is good grammar in Latin but there’s no reason for this rule in English. ---
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**Language & Linguistics** Alphabet Brogue Cadence Dialect Esperanto Fricative Glottal stop Heterograph Ideogram Jargon Kwanyama Law Labial Metonymy Nasal Onomatopoeia Pidgin Quantum linguistics Rhetoric Speech Thesaurus Umlaut Vocabulary Weasel words Xenogram Yooper > **[North-Central American English | Upper Peninsula English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-Central_American_English#Upper_Peninsula_English)** > > English of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, plus some bordering areas of northeast Wisconsin, colloquially known as U.P. or "Yooper" English, or Yoopanese, is a North-Central sub-variety with some additional influences from Finnish-speaking immigrants to the region. However, younger speakers may be starting to align closer to nearby Standard Canadian English, according to a recent study of Marquette County. > The traditional Yooper accent is associated with certain features: the alveolar stops /d/... ---
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**Language & Linguistics** Alphabet Brogue Cadence Dialect Esperanto Fricative Glottal stop Heterograph Ideogram Jargon Kwanyama Law Labial Metonymy Nasal Onomatopoeia Pidgin Quantum linguistics Rhetoric Speech Thesaurus Umlaut Vocabulary Weasel words Xenogram Yooper Zellig Harris If Noam Chomsky is “the father of modern linguistics”, then Harris, his mentor, could be the grandfather. **Words ending with the letter a** (proper nouns allowed) amygdala ---
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**Words ending with the letter a** (proper nouns allowed) amygdala bacteria ---
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**Words ending with the letter a** (proper nouns allowed) amygdala bacteria Capybara ---
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