The Story of English
10 questions on chapter 3
1. During the Renaissance relatively few Latin and Greek words entered the English language.
2. In Elizabethan English there was a conflict between authors who used ‘inkhorn terms’ and those who preferred ‘plainness’.
3. William Shakespeare must have used the standard pronunciation of English.
4. telleth, speaketh and tells, speaks. Shakespeare could use both the older, Southern forms and the newer, Northern forms.
5. James I of England spoke Broad Scots .
6. The Authorized Version of the Bible was published in 1611..
7. Many Puritans came from East Anglia.
8. Algonquin words were adopted by speakers of American English.
9. fall for autumn, I guess, mad for angry, sick for ill; these are some American innovations.
10. American English has borrowed more words from Spanish than from any other language.
