Global English

Question 1

engel

Answer 1

americanisms are ruining British English

Question 2

amercanisms

Answer 2

• lexical (fall, sidewalk, candy)
• grammatical (learnt)
• phonological (rhotic accent - pronounces ‘r’ sound at end of words
• orthographical - er digraph rather than re, color

Question 3

pyles

Answer 3

differences between american and british english are meaningless

Question 4

australian

Answer 4

lexical - digger for soldier, thong for flip flop
phonological - declaratives end like interrogatives, unstressed vowels turn to schwas
grammatical - collective nouns treated as singular - the sheep was eating

Question 5

african american vernacular english
(AAVE)

Answer 5

lexical - yo, homie
phonologically - th pronounced as d, g dropping
grammatically - copular verb dropped. use of ain’t

Question 6

kandiah

Answer 6

english’s spread is a direct result of colonisation

Question 7

ostler

Answer 7

technology will cause english to lose its prominence as translation software is used

Question 8

kachru

Answer 8

inner circle - english is main language - UK, USA, Aus
outer circle - english is present due to colonisation / invasion - India / Singapore
expanding circle - English is used but not due to invasion - Japan or China