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6. Whose publication called 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755) had a strong influence on standardising spelling?
- William Caxton's
- Samuel Johnson's
- Robert Lowth's
7. What is the name for an old word that goes out of use?
- Archaism
- obsolete
- afixation
8. Name three things that have had a profound affects on language...
- magazines, newspapers and television
- Scientific advancement, standardisation and other languages
- industrialisation, archaisms and phonology
9. What is Conversion?
- When a new word is created because an existing word changes class
- Advances in medicine, science and technology
- Where new prefixes or suffixes are added to an existing word
10. Name two foreign languages that have greatly influenced the English language...
- Greek and Latin
- French and Spanish
- Turkish and Latin
11. Name a famous linguist who was a prescriptivist...
- Jonathan Swift
- Taylor Swift
- F.R Tennant
12. What is compounding?
- The creation of a word by combining two separate words
- When two separate words are merged together
- When a word is 'borrowed' from another language
13. What do we call it when a word develops a more positive or negative meaning?
- conversion and archaism
- Amelioration and Pejoration
- Amelioration and archaism
14. What was the name of the standard English accent in previous years and was also seen as the official accent of the BBC in 1922?
- London Regional Accent
- Received Pronunciation
- Standard English Pronunciation