Puzzle of the Day

My daughter has the onesie below. What's the punny text on the back?

Check back tomorrow for the answer, a shoutout to all the solvers, and a new puzzle!

Previous puzzle:

Today's puzzle is based on a tweet by linguist Dr. Bethan Tovey-Walsh. How many of the blanks can you fill using the emoji bank? (All the words are related to language and linguistics.)

g＿mar      vo＿ulary      ‍sem＿ics      syn＿      ＿tics      ort＿raphy      ＿ourse      ＿otics      ＿eracy      phi＿ogy

🐜 🐖 🚕 🔥 💿 🐏 😆 🚛 ☎️ 💸

Answer:

• g🐏mar (grammar)
• vo🚕ulary (vocabulary)
• ‍sem🐜ics (semantics)
• syn💸 (syntax)
• ☎️tics (phonetics)
• ort🐖raphy (orthography)
• 💿ourse (discourse)
• 🚛otics (semiotics)
• 🔥eracy (literacy)
• phi😆ogy (philology)

There are a lot more of these in the original tweet. Appropriately, orthography is the conventions of spelling and semiotics (NOT truckotics) is the study of signs and symbols.

(Psst... if you're interested in what a linguist has to say about emoji and other changes the internet has wrought in written English, let me recommend Gretchen McCulloch's new book Because Internet.)

🎩s off to these fine folks who got 4 or more: ♌ S. (all 🔟), ♌ K. (🔟), Anna K. (🔟), Anna J., Agn④, Atticus (🔟), Jessica (🔟), Charlie (🔟), Hazel (🔟), 🐈er M. and 🐕er V., 📖👀e (🔟), 😡dy, Josh 🐄 (🔟), and Dr. Y👽👨!