Miscellaneous 1
Examples of words appropriated from Native American languages (name 3)
skunk, moose, raccoon, opossum, terrapin, hominy, squash, wigwam, papoose, tomahawk, moccasin, hickory, maize, pecan, persimmon, toboggan, powwow, totem, many state names (Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Mississippi, Kentucky)
The term for using a similar-sounding but absolutely wrong word in conversation or writing
Malapropism
The most popular form of poetry during the English Renaissance
Sonnets
This dictionary contained fewer than 3,000 "hard usual English words" gathered by the author "for the benefit & help of ladies, gentlewomen, or any other unskillful persons"
Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall
The first king of England after the Anglo-Norman period to make English the official language of state
Henry V
This scientist (and others) introduced new terms and modified Latin and Greek terms for use as the vocabulary of "reason and investigation" during the Enlightenment.
Sir Isaac Newton
Before Wyclyffe's translation of the Bible, most common people relied upon this type of entertainment to learn about biblical stories
Mystery plays
The author of Astrophil and Stella
Philip Sidney
This is considered the first thorough dictionary of English, containing over 40,000 words.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language
This American school district ignited a huge controversy when it declared AAVE a language and attempted to use bilingual funding and techniques to help students acquire fluency in Standard American English
Oakland
The name for the distinct variety of English that survives in the islands of South Carolina
Gullah
The name that was given to the followers of John Wycliffe
Lollards
The author of The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser
This dictionary-writer is notable for omitting words he couldn't understand, providing some biased and inaccurate definitions, and arbitrarily including obsolete words.
Samuel Johnson
This technology froze English spelling and increased literacy and the demand for books in English
William Caxton's printing press in 1476
Potato, cayman, canoe, peccary, hurricane, cassava, guava, hammock, savanna, iguana
Diphthongs
This British Romantic poet was known for using vernacular speech in his poems
William Wordsworth
Noah Webster introduced these two (among many) spelling innovations in his American Dictionary of English to differentiate American English from British English
No more “u” in colour, honour, favour
No extra “g” in waggon or “l” in traveller
Theatre --> theater, Center --> center
Plough --> plow
Cheque --> check (+ masque/mask)
No more final “k” in musick, physick, logick
This undertaking introduced over 500 Native American words to the English lexicon
This text was released over the period from 1382-1395.
Wycliffe's translation of the Bible
This 16th- and 17th-century dispute featured arguments that the English language should return to its Anglo-Saxon roots instead of using these new __________ terms coined from Latin and Greek roots
Inkhorn controversy (inkhorn terms)
The Scottish poet who championed the use of the Scottish dialect during the Romantic period
Robert Burns
American English was influenced by an influx of immigrants from these two countries in the 1700s.
Ireland and Scotland
This author __________ of this play __________ hoped that if he could convince people to think critically despite eloquent and authoritative rhetoric, he might prevent the outbreak of WWI.
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1912)