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General language
canonical order
Language; General language
The most common pattern that a language’s main sentence elements take.
cant
Language; General language
A jargon used by cliques — such as criminal groups and gypsies — to prevent outsiders from understanding what they are saying.
capitonym
Language; General language
Homonyms that have the same spelling but which have different meanings and, perhaps, different pronunciations when capitalized.
cardinal vowels
Language; General language
A set of reference vowels used by phoneticians to describe language sounds.
caret (^)
Language; General language
The name for the ^ symbol when it is used as a proofreading mark to show the place where either a punctuation mark or some text should be inserted in a document.
caritive case
Language; General language
A grammatical case that expresses the lack or absence of the marked referent.
casus generalis
Language; General language
A catch-all term for any case other than the nominative and vocative (and sometimes the accusative). For example, the genitive case is a casus generalis.
