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100

What is the name of the indigeonous group in Australia?

Aboriginals

100

What makes English a 'global language'?

It is spoken all over the world

100

How do you transform this word from British English to American English?:

Colour

You remove the "u"

100

Besides school, what is the main tool we learn English through today?

Movies/series, and the internet

100

Define a conjunction

A word that connects sentences. 

200

What Native American tribe were "code talkers" for the US military during WW2?

The Navajo tribe

200

After English, what is the second most spoken language by people with another mother tongue (morsmål) than English?

Spanish

200

What is the normal way to say, "How are you doing?" in Australian English?


How you goin'?

200

When did the practice that created "The Lost... I mean the Stolen Generation" end in Australia?

1970s

200

What is the conjunction in this sentence?:

I like broccoli but only when it is served with chicken.

but

300
What does it mean to be "indigenous"? 

That you can trace your ancestry (gen-arv) back to the people that first lived a place.

300

In English, how many of the names of days in the week come from Old Norse (Norrønt/gammelnorsk)? 

Five (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday)

300

What variant of English is this?

Mi a-og tel shi se mi waa nyam di bammy

Jamaican English, and it means: "I will tell her I want the flower"

300
Through WHAT were most Native Americans, Aboriginals and Maori people taught English in the past?

(Through) force

300

What is wrong with this sentence?:

I am Norwegian. I am coming from Norway.

Second sentence should be: I come from Norway
400

What was the Australian authorities' reason for forcefully taking aboriginal children from their parents?

So to teach them "real" (white) culture. 

They meant the aboriginal parents were incapable of giving them what they needed.

400
What is a "lingua franca"?

The latin name for 'bridge language': a language used between people who do not share the same native language.

400

How are different variants of English created?

Through different influences (for example cultures, environment and time)

400

What is the main historical reason English is a global language today?

British imperialism
400

What is a more precise, or fancy conjunction you can use instead of "and" in this sentence?:

I got the milk and the honey.

Along with / as well as / together with