Morphemes – English editing.
In linguistics, a morpheme is the smallest unit of word having a semantic meaning. They can’t be broken down any further into recognizable or meaningful parts. A morpheme is composed…
Deictic – English editing.
Deictic is a word specifying identity or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or listener in the context in which the communication occurs. It is a word (such…
Diphthongs – English editing.
Diphthongs are single vowel sounds that begin in one vowel position and end in another vowel or glide positions. • (/oy/) – a tense mid back (rounded) vowel found in…
Consonant – English editing.
A consonant is a sound of speech produced when the speaker either stops or severely constricts the airflow in the vocal tract. Consonants are classified into two categories namely, voiceless…
Deictic – English editing.
Deictic is a word specifying identity or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or listener in the context in which the communication occurs. It is a word (such…
Niggardly – English editing.
Niggardly has no historical connection with nigger, but because it sounds like it, and probably because it is at the same time a derogatory term, meaning ‘ungenerous with money, time,…
Nevertheless – English editing.
It is quite common to find nevertheless spelled ‘never the less’. Although this is how it was written many centuries ago, the standard modern spelling is as one word. For…
Negroid – English editing.
The term Negroid belongs to a set of terms introduced by 19th-century anthropologists attempting to categorize human races. Such terms are associated with outdated notions of racial types, and so…