anachronymy: a shopping list of items, like pencil lead, that are technically misnomers but accepted by convention—see also
there were tears brimming on her azure peepers, and tremulous grief twister her kisser: choice lines from pulp fiction detective story author Robert Leslie Bellem—see previously
you’re all bilingual already even if you didn’t realise it before: polyglot professor addresses a high school assembly in studied Gen Alpha slang
danglers: many hanging gerunds only do harm with a feat of imagination—see also
breaking and entering: effraction is an antiquated synonym from the French it’s a breakthrough—one of them can speak: a human polyglot communicates with bonobos in their own language
five corpulent porpoises: vintage pronunciation drills for prospective BBC anchors, including “Penelope Cholmondely rasied her azure eyes from the crabbed scenario”
linguistic relativity: studies of comparative conceptual specialities suggest that some cultures do have more words for snow and lava
