Modern English features
- Created by: Hope G
- Created on: 11-06-16 15:48
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- Modern English 1700-1900s
- Standardisation developed gradually - heavily influenced by Samuel Johnson's dictionary 1755
- Stated spellings and meanings thus standardising them
- Advances in science and medication meant the invention of new words
- New inventions also brought about new words
- Social, cultural and political development meant new lexis
- Expansion of British empire brought new words
- Standardisation developed gradually - heavily influenced by Samuel Johnson's dictionary 1755
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