Issues for Consideration:

1. Vowel degradation in unstressed syllables (and its result in language formation)

2. Changes in index of phonemes due to phoenetic variation--this means that phoenetic variation sometimes leads to fewer phonemes in a language; and sometimes to more. For example, we no longer pronounce the "gh" in "knight, and we have lost the /X/ phoneme in Standard American.

3. Ablaut, full-grade and zero-grade changes --don't need to know this for our quiz. But it sure is interesting.

4. Some sources of English words --think especially of Latin and French.

5. The search for the "original" language (before Babel) --not for this quiz, but a very interesting topic indeed.