Quiz Questions

What constitutes a Period in Language? What is Orthogeny? What does Most signify? What is an Exclamation? What does Ing signify? What are they? 30 How are written words marked that are to be printed in Capitals? What is an Idiomatic word? What prefixes signify Many? What is the signification of A as a Prefix? How many do the Diphthongs represent? Give Rule 3 71 How distinguish between an affix and a part of a compound word? What should be characteristic of the Descriptive style?

Category: LETTERS

What is Orthography? Of what does Orthography treat? From what is the word Orthography derived? What is a Letter? What is an Alphabet of a Language? What is the origin of the word Alphabet? Where did the Alphabet originate? What was the first Alphabet ever used? How many letters were in the original Alphabet? Where did the other letters originate? What was the last letter added to the English Alphabet? Why was it called W? How many letters in the English Alphabet? How many in the Latin Alphabet? 15 What is the difference between the Latin Alphabet and the English? What Alphabet has the greatest number of letters? How many letters in the Chinese Alphabet? What is a Perfect Alphabet? Is the English a perfect Alphabet? How many Elementary sounds in the English Language? What is an Imperfect Alphabet? What is an Equivocal Alphabet? What is an Unequivocal Alphabet? Is the English Alphabet Equivocal or Unequivocal? What is a Univocal Alphabet? What is an Alphabetic Language? What is a Phonetic Alphabet? Is there any Phonetic Alphabet of the English Language? How many letters in the English Phonetic Alphabet? What is the name of a Letter? What is the difference between a Letter and its Name? What Letters name themselves? How are the Letters divided? What are Vowels? Name all the Vowels What is a Consonant? Why called Consonants? How many kinds of Consonants are there? Name the Consonant letters Name the Consonant Combinations Name the two Orders of the Consonants What are Mutes? Name the Mutes What other term is often applied to the Mutes? What are Semivowels? Name the Semivowels Are the Combinations Mutes or Semivowels? What letters are called Nasals? What other term is often applied to the Semivowels? What letters are called Liquids? Why are the Liquids so called? What are Sibilants? What letter is called the Mute Sibilant? What letters represent no sound of their own? What are these letters called? Why are they so named? By what letters are the sounds of C represented? What letters represent the sound of Q? What letters represent the sound X? What letters of themselves form words? Spell all of the Consonants What letters are called the Twins? Why so called? Is there any exception to this rule? What is meant by style of letters? How many forms have letters? What are they? What are the Natural Divisions of Consonants? What are Subvocals? Name the Subvocals What are Aspirates? Name the Aspirates What Combination is both Aspirate and Subvocal? What are Cognate letters? Give an example of a Cognate letter What are Quiescent letters? How many uses have Silent letters? What are they? What are Explodents? Name the Explodents What are the principle organs of speech? What is meant by Organical division of the consonants? Name the Organical divisions What are Labials? Name them What are Dentals? Name them What are Linguals? Name them What are Palatals? Name them What letters have no Organical classification? What is an Aphthong? How many kinds of Aphthongs? What are they? What letters are never silent? In what words is V silent? In what word is Z silent? What letters are never doubled? How many words contain all the vowels in regular order? What are they? What is a Diphthong? Name the Diphthongs How many sounds do they represent? What are the sounds called? How many kinds of Diphthongs are there? What are they? Which ones are Separable? What is an Improper Diphthong? By what other name are they known? How many Digraphs are there? Name them What is a Trigraph? How many Trigraphs are there? Name them What is a Tetragraph? How many Tetragraphs are there? What is it? May the terms Digraph, etc, be used with the Consonants? Give example of Consonant Digraph Give example of Consonant Trigraph Give example of Consonant Tetragraph What is a regular Triphthong? Give an example