Terms to Know
Natural language variations in the grammar of a language ...
What is SYNTAX CHANGE?
Gender Equality Public Debates influenced changing title of a "Fireman" to ...
What is a FIREFIGHTER?
The PRINTING PRESS
The movement of people from one country or place to another...
What is MIGRATION?
Eye contact, gestures are examples of this form of 'language'...
What is BODY LANGUAGE?
Olden meaning of 'Guy'...
What is GROTESQUE or UGLY?
One cause of language change from William the Conqueror's Norman-French collaboration...
What are the Foreign Invasion and Colonization?
This term arose from technology to block malware...
What is a FIREWALL?
What are... GERMANIC and LATIN?
Modern word for Cupid's olden term "lufu"...
What is LOVE...?
The writing system of language...
What is GRAPHOLOGY...?
What is POLITICAL...?
No longer just a sound that birds make...
What is a "TWEET...?
What are FRENCH AND LATIN?
One of the largest social factors on Language Change...
What are GENDER, AGE, SOCIAL CLASS?
When olden words evolve to take on new meaning...
What is "SEMANTIC CHANGE?"
Olden Spanish/Greek term for "field" = this modern-day word meaning for a public square...
What is a PLAZA?
What is 'Texting'...?
Modern term for a "cordial" gathering...
What is a FORMAL affair or event...?
What is SEMANTICS?
One historical political event that affected language change ...
What is WATERGATE, FOREVER WAR...?
Popular verb used to say, 'let's look it up!' when working online.
What is, "GOOGLE it!"
Language that spawned the popular word: Ketchup
What is LEXIS?