SG Heritage Dictionary

Language Roget’s Thesaurus §560

N. language, phraseology, speech, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue, household words, king's english, queen's english, dialect, confusion of tongues, babel, pasigraphie, pantomime, onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation, pasigraphy, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, linguistics, chrestomathy, paleology, paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language, scholarship

V. express by words

Phr. "syllables govern the world"

Neologism Roget’s Thesaurus §563

N. neology, neologism, newfangled expression, # nonce expression, back-formation, caconym, barbarism, archaism, black letter, monkish latin, corruption, missaying, malapropism, antiphrasis, pun, paranomasia, play upon words, word play, double-entendre, palindrome, paragram, anagram, clinch, abuse of language, abuse of terms, dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois, provincialism, regionalism, localism, broken english, lingua franca, anglicism, briticism, gallicism, scotticism, hibernicism, americanism, gypsy lingo, romany, pidgin, pidgin english, pigeon english, volapuk, chinook, esperanto, hindustani, kitchen kaffir, dog latin, macaronics, gibberish, confusion of tongues, babel, babu english, chi-chi, figure of speech, byword, colloquialism, informal speech, informal language, substandard language, vernacular, vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity, jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot, st. gile's greek, thieves' latin, peddler's french, flash tongue, billingsgate, wall street slang, pseudology, pseudonym, mr. so-and-so, wha d'ye call 'em, whatchacallim, what's his name, thingummy, thingumbob, je ne sais quoi, neologist, coiner of words

V. coin words, coin a term, backform, americanize, anglicize