Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?

A poet who wrote the ‘Canterbury Tales’.

Who was Jonathon Swift?

The man who wrote ‘Gullivers Travels’, also with an iconic writing style.

What is diachronic change?

The variation of language over time.

Why did he write a new dictionary for the Americans?

To provide a separate foundation for America, less ties to England

Which one of these was NOT by Jean Aitcheson?

Monkeys, tossing around a ming vase, the richest property we possess

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1
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
The man who wrote the first dictionary.
A poet who wrote the ‘Canterbury Tales’.
Someone who wrote about fiction crime novella.
The man who wrote about the Great Fire of London.
2
The pronunciation of a vowel changes over time.
Shifting
Phonologising
Merging
Lengthening
3
New words entering our language
Diachronic change
Orthology
Semantic change
Lexical change
4
Who was Jonathon Swift?
The man who wrote the ’Canterbury Tales’.
The man who wrote ‘Gullivers Travels’, also with an iconic writing style.
An English novelist of short stories who were favoured by Americans in 1700
An English poet known for his neologisms.
5
Grammatical rules were established in 1762 by…
Jonathon Swift
Lowth
Murray
Pinker
6
Which sentence uses the correct grammar?
On Wednesday’s, we wear pink!
On Wednesdays, we wear pink!
On wednesday’s, we wear pink!
On Wednesdays we wear pink
7
Noah Webster helped implement the change of orthography in America
True
False
8
An American lexicographer who wrote the dictionary in 1828
Linday Murray
Samuel Johnson
Noah Webster
Steven Pinker
9
What’s wrong with this example?
Multiple superlatives
Wrong use of commas and full stops
It should address the subject
Green grocer’s
10
The inkhorn controversy was a debate in the 13th century describing words which were pretentious
False
True
11
Phonological change is the way in which our language changes meaning
True
False
12
How spelling and punctuation change over time
Lexical change
Semantic change
Grammatical change
Orthography
13
Which one of these is a new word?
PMO
Globalisation
Surreal
Rizz
14
What is diachronic change?
The variation of language over time.
The variation of the language structure.
The variation of how language is spoken.
How the language meaning changes.
15
Why did he write a new dictionary for the Americans?
To help improve Americas intelligence decline
To provide a separate foundation for America, less ties to England
To create new forms of communication which sound worse than it used to
To challenge Samuel Johnsons first dictionary
16
Which one of these was NOT by Jean Aitcheson?
Monkeys, tossing around a ming vase, the richest property we possess
Damp spoon, as people are beginning to be lazy with our language
A crumbling castle, as English used to be perfect and is now falling apart
A young cuckoo throwing the other baby birds out the nest
17
How and why words acquire meaning overtime
Diachronic change
Grammatical change
Semantic change
Orthology
18
Someone not opposed to language change but we should still enforce some rules
Gilfordist
Perscriptivist
Descriptivist
Semanticist

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