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VICTORIAN BRITAIN
100
This dialect is abbreviated AAE.
What is African-American English or Ebonics?
100
An intergovernmental organisation of 52 member states that were mostly territories of the former British Empire.
What is The Commonwealth of Nations?
100
He played a leading role in gaining independence for India using non-violent methods
Who was Gandhi?
100
Places in the world where English is spoken.
What is the Anglophone world?
100
During the Victorian Era, this great scientist developed his ideas on natural selection.
Who was Charles Darwin?
200
A language with no native speakers and a simple grammar and limited vocabulary, used for communication.
What is a Pidgin language?
200
Among all the colonies, this is how India was referred to by the British.
What is "The Jewel in the Crown"?
200
1947.
What is the year India gained its independence?
200
A variety of language, unique in pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary.
What is a dialect?
200
This engine was one of the great inventions during this period and played a central role in the Industrial Revolution.
What is the steam engine?
300
The two most well-known lingua francas in the history of man.
What are Latin and English?
300
This type of literature is sometimes defined as "The Empire striking back".
What is post-colonial literature?
300
The first Prime Minister of India.
Who was Nehru?
300
The value of a language.
What is language currency?
300
The years of Queen Victoria's rule.
What is 1837-1901?
400
Tok Pisin is a pidgin language spoken in this country.
What is Papua New Guinea?
400
"The White Man's Burden" was written for this nation.
What is The US?
400
The three main religion of India.
What are Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam?
400
Can be done by speakers of two dialects or languages, depending on what one wishes to accomplish.
What is code-switching?
400
The name of a bicycle invented in this era.
What is the penny-farthing?
500
These four languages constitute English.
What is Latin, Danish, German and French?
500
The first two lines from Kipling's poem "Take Up the White Man's Burden"
What is "Take Up the White Man's Burden/Send forth the best ye breed"?
500
This product - known all over the world - originally came from India and is called "champu" in Sanskrit.
What is shampoo?
500
The idea that language dictates, and thus limits, what we are able to think.
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
500
The British Prime Minister who advocated Imperialism.
Who was Benjamin Disraeli?