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Idioms
100
The number of people that lived on the British Isles at this time.
What are 500.000 individuals?
100
The people who spoke French.
What are the Norman/English king, his nobles and the elite?
100
The thing that was easy to mass-produce after the invention of the printing press.
What is/are a book/books?
100
The rate in which the grammar of standard English has changed.
What is slow/a much slower rate than the previous centuries?
100
Swearing.
What is 'What the dickens'?
200
The two major influences on the language during the Anglo-Saxon period.
What are Latin and Norse?
200
The three languages that influenced the language in this period.
What are French, Latin and Norman/Old English?
200
The year that William Caxton set up the printing press that is considered a crucial year in the history of the English language.
What is the year 1476?
200
Name at least on set of words from page 20 that is different in American and English but mean the same thing.
What is gasoline/petrol, baggage/luggage, truck/lorry, line/queue, freeway/motorway, cab/taxi, apartment/flat, elevator/lift, cookie/biscuit
200
Stone dead.
What is 'Dead as a door-nail'?
300
The people who invaded the British Isles in the 5th century.
What are the Angles (northern Germany), Saxons (Germany) and Jutes (Jutland/Denmark)?
300
The three areas the changed.
What are vocabulary, grammar and spelling?
300
The ending of third person singular that changed to the -s ending in this period.
What is -(e)th ending?
300
The year America gained its independence from Britain.
What is the year 1776?
300
Don't be greedy/focus too much on material things.
What is 'Money is the root of all evil'?
400
The three things Norse influenced.
What are last names, place names and pronouns?
400
The adjective that described English in from 1066 - ca. 1470
What is trilingual?
400
The two distinct factors that in particular dominated the development of Modern English.
What are Shakespeare's work and the King James Bible?
400
The 4 developments that had a major influence in Standard English.
What are social, scientific, technological and economic developments?
400
You should not try to combine the new with the old.
What is 'New Wine into old bottles'?
500
The five nations the island contains at this time.
What are the English, Britons, Scots, Picts and Latins?
500
The French and Latin word that have the same fundamental meaning as 'time'.
What are 'age' and 'epoch'?
500
The discussion about that the influx of foreign word was a danger to the English language.
What is 'The Inkhorn Controversy'?
500
The year Noah Webster published the first American dictionary.
What is the year 1806?
500
Give back what you owe - money or favours.
What is 'Give the devil his due'?