• baby talk


• back-channelling


• back-clipping


• back-formation


• backronym


• backshift


• back slang


• backslash (\)


• Bailey, Nathan


• barbarism


• bare infinitive


• base


• base form


• Basic English


• basilect


• begging the question


• beside | besides


• bicameral alphabet


• Bickerton, Derek


• bilabial


• billingsgate


• bimonthly | semi-monthly


• binary antonyms


• blend


• blending


• blind agreement


• Bloomfield, Leonard


• Blount, Thomas


• Boas, Franz


• body language


• Bopp, Franz


• bouletic modality


• boulomaic modality


• bound morpheme


• boustrophedon


• Boxhorn, Marcus van


• braces ({ })


• brachygraphy


• brachylogy


• brackets {}[]()«»< >


• break hyphen (-)


• broad reference


• Broca’s aphasia


• brogue


• broken English


• Brown Corpus


• Brythonic


• Bullokar, William


• bureaucratese


• burr


• buzzword