The Story of English
10 questions on chapter 7
1. The words wigwam, pretzel, spook, depot and canyon are of Indian, German, Dutch, French and Spanish origin respectively.
2. Thomas Jefferson proposed a reform of English spelling.
3. Noah Webster was the fifth American president.
4. Noah Webster predicted that the American language would become as different from the English of England as Dutch from German.
5. Canadian English descended from the speech of the Loyalists who settled in Ontario .
6. The term bootleg was coined by American pioneers.
7. The “Gettysburg Address ” was written by Mark Twain.
8. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe ”. This is a line from a poem by Walt Whitman.
9. The phrases liberty cabbage and hot dog were coined during the First World War to replace sauerkraut and frankfurter.
10. According to H.L.Mencken, British English and American English were two separate languages on divergent paths.
