Language Change Terms 0.0 / 5 ? English LanguageLanguage ChangeA2/A-levelAQA Created by: LauraCardwellCreated on: 08-01-15 11:44 58249371106 Across 1. Scuba- (self contained underwater breathing apparatus (8) 6. informal speech, often to the point of being racy, rebellious and subversive (5) 7. adding a group of letters to an existing word in the form of a prefix or suffix (7) 8. words from names, e.g. 'sandwich' (7) Down 2. Shift of meaning or ‘functional shift’ in which the words change their ‘class’, e.g. ‘text’ (noun) and ‘to text’ (verb) (8, 5) 3. common phrase that has a meaning not deducible from the individual words, e.g. ‘jump the gun’ (5) 4. accents that originated in London and the South East, which have now spread outwards to several other parts of the country (7, 7) 5. BBC, TV, SOS, ASAP (11) 9. An approach to the study of language that describes how language is used by does not judge language as correct or incorrect (13) 10. process in which words are shortened and then compounded (6)
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