Social influences
This word:
mankini
What is a blend of man and bikini?
What was the Middle English period?
Bromance is an example of this.
What is a blend?
This is the way you would address a male sibling in Norwegian.
What is bror?
This invention enabled wider access to text during the Middle English period.
What is Caxton's printing press?
This word:
lol
What is an acronym?
Immigrants from these places arrived in England from 450 CE.
What are Jutland, Anglia and Saxony?
This describes the culturally dependent positive and negative associations about a word.
What is connotation?
This language originated in the Indus Valley, and is the ancestor of most modern European languages.
What is proto Indo-European?
This mixed the varieties of Middle English, causing the loss of regional dialects,
What is bubonic plague?
William the Conqueror arrived at Hastings to fight for the throne in this year.
What is 1066?
This term describes two lexemes from different languages.
What is a cognate?
This separated the bearded, axe-bearing invaders from the gentle melodious incumbents of England in the 9th Century.
What was the Danelaw?
What is shortening?
This group of languages was spoken by the Celtic Britons in 450 CE.
What are the Brythonic languages?