The Story of English
10 questions on chapter 8
1. The first British convicts landed in Botany Bay in 1688 .
2. H-dropping was already a characteristic of Cockney in the 16th century.
3. John Keats was known as the “Cockney poet”.
4. The word yob is an example of rhyming slang.
5. Many Cockney words were borrowed from Yiddish.
6. The Australian Aborigines spoke the Aboriginal language.
7. There is considerable regional variation in Australian English.
8. Australian men tend to speak Broad and General Australian, whereas Australian women tend to speak General and Cultivated Australian.
9. In New Zealand English there are several borrowings from Maori.
10. The majority of South Africans are native speakers of South African English.
