Language Change
- Created by: Emily
- Created on: 07-01-13 20:59
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2. What is an idiom?
- Sayings that don't make sense if they are literally taken
- words that have changed over time
- Words that have gone out of use
3. Why did contractions go out of fashion in the 18th century?
- Because they were only used in text messages
- Because people with a prescriptivist attitude like Jonathan Swift complained they were 'corrupting' English
- Because people became lazy and did not like to use them
4. What is Conversion?
- Where new prefixes or suffixes are added to an existing word
- When a new word is created because an existing word changes class
- Advances in medicine, science and technology
5. 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
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