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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