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1
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what percentage or words in Modern English derive from Greek and Latin?

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approx. 65%

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C.E. stands for _________ ____

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Common Era

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A.D. stands for _____ _______

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Anno Domini

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A.D. is placed ______ dates

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before

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L. (in the year of the Lord)

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Anno Domini

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C.E. is placed ______ after dates

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after

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B.C.E. stands for _______ ___ ________ ___

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before the common era

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B.C. stands for _______ _____

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before Christ

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B.C.E. and B.C. are put _______ the year

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after

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if you were to use B.C. you MUST USE _______

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A.D.

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11
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what century is 550 C.E.?

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the sixth century C.E.

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what century is 420 B.C.E.?

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the fifth century B.C.E.

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13
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what century is A.D. 30?

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the first century A.D.

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people who spoke 1. ______ were in the area of 2. ______ Sea by the middle of the 3. ___ millennium B.C.E. (about 4. ________ B.C.E.)

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  1. Greek
  2. Aegean
  3. 2nd
  4. 1500
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The form of writing 1. _________ __ was written in 2. ________

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  1. Linear B

2. Greek

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when 1. __________ __ ______ (2. ____-__ B.C.E.) conquered a huge portion of the world, he brought 3. _____ language and 4. ______ to the entire 5. ________ Mediterranean, where it became an important cultural force

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  1. Alexander the Great
  2. 356-23
  3. Greek
  4. culture
  5. Eastern
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  1. _______ became the 2. _________ language (3. ______ ______) of the 4. _______ Mediterranean
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  1. Greek
  2. international
  3. lingua franca
    Eastern
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the 1. _____ left a lasting mark on many aspects of later 2. ________, Middle Eastern, and even S. Asian culture. —–> Resulting it’s
strong influence on 3. _______

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  1. Greeks
  2. European
  3. English
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the 1. _______ were og. a 2. _______ 3. ________ people who got their name from their city, 4. _____

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  1. Romans
  2. central
  3. Italian
  4. Rome
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out first clear records of them come from the 1. _____ part of the 2. ____ millennium B.C.E. (about 3. ____ B.C.E.)

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  1. middle
  2. first
  3. 500
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at the time of 1. ______ (2. ___ C.E.) they had a huge empire that controlled the entire 3. ___________ region

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  1. Christ
  2. 1
  3. Mediterranean
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they spread their language, 1. _____ which became the 2. ________ lang of the 3. __________ Mediterranean; while 4. ______ remained the common lang of the 5. ________ Mediterranean

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  1. Latin
  2. dominant
  3. Western
  4. Greek
  5. Eastern
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the 1. ______ _____ of the 2. _______ Mediterranean was 3. ______

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  1. lingua franca
  2. Western
  3. Latin
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the 1. ______ admired and imitated many aspects of 2. _____ culture and therefore borrowed 3. ______ vocabulary

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  1. Romans
  2. Greek
  3. Greek
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the 1. _______, 2. _____-speaking portions of the 3. _____ _____, in the 4. _____ part of the 5. ____ millennium C.E., developed into numerous 6. ___________ states

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  1. Western
  2. Latin
  3. Roman Empire
  4. middle
  5. first
  6. independent
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the 1. _______, 2. ______-speaking part of the 3. ______ _____ lived on till 4. _____C.E.

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  1. eastern
  2. Greek
  3. Roman Empire
  4. 1453
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  1. ____ remained the language of 2. ________ in the 3. _______ region ‘till just a few 4. ________ ago
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  1. Latin
  2. education
  3. Western
  4. centuries
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28
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in everyday life, 1. _____ slowly changed to become the modern 2. _______ languages such as 3. _______, 4. ______, 5. ______, etc

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  1. Latin
  2. Romance
  3. French
  4. Spanish
  5. Italian
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  1. ______ is NOT a 2. ________ lang; as it does not 3. ________ directly from 4. _______
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  1. English
  2. Romance
  3. descend
  4. Latin
30
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  1. ________ has been influenced by 2. _______, 3. _________ lang, and 4. ______
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  1. English
  2. Latin
  3. Romance
  4. Greek
31
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in 1. ______ times, 2. _______ was inhabited largely by 3. ______ speakers

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  1. Roman
  2. Britain
  3. Celtic
32
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the 1. ________ conquered most of what we now call 2. ________ in the middle part of the 3. ____ century

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  1. Romans
  2. England
  3. first
33
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w/ how things were going England would become 1. _____ speakers but in the 2. _______ century, large numbers of 3. ________ entered the 4. ______ ______, often peacefully

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  1. Latin
  2. fourth
  3. Germans
  4. Roman Empire
34
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many of these 1. ______ were fleeing the 2. ____, an 3. ________ people making incursions into 4. _______ from the east

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  1. Germans
  2. Huns
  3. Asiatic
  4. Europe
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the 1. ________ 2. ________ posed a particular problem in the late 3. ______ and 4. ______ centuries C.E.

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  1. German
  2. Visigoths
  3. fourth
  4. fifth
36
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The 1. ________ sacked 2. ____ under their king 3. _____ in 4. ____ C.E.

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  1. Visigoths
  2. Rome
  3. Alaric
  4. 410
37
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the 1. ________ abandoned 2. _______ and the 3. ____ portion of the 4. ________ empire eventually fell in 5. _____ C.E.

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  1. Romans
  2. Britain
  3. western
  4. roman
  5. 476
38
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the 1. ________ lang these people spoke we now call 2. ______-______ or 3. ___ _______, spoken approx. from around 4. _____ (0r 5. ____) to 6. ______ C.E.

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  1. Germanic
  2. Anglo-Saxon
  3. Old English
  4. 400
  5. 450
  6. 1100
39
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  1. _____-______ gradually replaced Celtic lang in much of G.B. (bringing only little embedded 2. ________ words like 3. ______ and 4. ____
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  1. Anglo-Saxon
  2. Latinate
  3. street
  4. wine
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  1. _______, speakers of another 2. _______ lang, 3. ___ _______, arrived in a second wave of 4. ________ invasions starting around 5. _____ C.E. lasting some 6. ______ years
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  1. Vikings
  2. Germanic
  3. Old Norse (Frenchy???)
  4. Germanic
  5. 800
  6. 200
41
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the 1. ____-______ who were not 2. ________ og, were converted around 3. ____ C.E.

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  1. Anglo-Saxons
  2. Christian
  3. 600
42
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the lang of 1. ________ in 2. _______ Europe was 3. ______ (w/ many 4. _____ loanwords), so many 5. _____ and 6. ______ words begin to enter 7. ______ here

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  1. Christianity
  2. Western
  3. Latin
  4. Greek
  5. Latin
  6. Greek
  7. English
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in 1. ____ (2. _____ of 3. _______) 4. ______ __ _______, a 5. _____, conquered 6. ________

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  1. 1066
  2. Battle
  3. Hastings
  4. William the Conqueror
  5. Norman (France)
  6. England
44
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  1. _____ is a lang 2. ________ from 3. ____, so this is the 4. _______ great wave of 5. _____ influence on 6. _______
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  1. French
  2. derived
  3. Latin
  4. second
  5. Latin
  6. English
45
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  1. ___ ______ comes to an end w/ the 2. ______ conquest thus beginning the stage of 3. _______ _______ in 4. _____ C.E. and the beginning of 5. ______ _______ to 6. _____ C.E.
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  1. Old English
  2. Norman
  3. Middle English
  4. 1100
  5. Modern English
  6. 1500
46
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  1. ______ ______ corresponds to the intro of the 2. _______ _____ to 3. _______ by 4. ______ ______ in 5. ______
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  1. Middle English
  2. printing press
  3. England
  4. William Caxton
  5. 1476
47
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an example of a Middle English writer would be ______

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Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales

48
Q

everyday, household words are mostly _________

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Germanic

49
Q

in the workplace and more formal public settings, we tend to use more _____

A

Latin, either from French or directly from Latin

50
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in very technical fields we tend to use words of _____ origin

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Greek

51
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there are different 1. ______ of 2. _______

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  1. registers

2. English

52
Q

who is an example of Modern English? (a writer)

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Shakespeare

53
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  1. ___ _______ __ ____ is the first 2. ______-______ king to become 3. ________
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  1. King Ethelbert of Kent
  2. Anglo-Saxon
  3. Christian
54
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  1. ____ conversion brought w/ it 2. _____
A
  1. Kent’s

2. Latin

55
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the 1. ____ = 2. _____ (interest-bearing debt) is currently preserved at the 3. _______ Museum in 4. _____ (5. c. ______ B.C.E.) Is possibly the first 6. _______ and is a 7. ________ one

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  1. Urra
  2. hubullu
  3. Louvre
  4. Paris
  5. 2300
  6. dictionary
  7. bilingual
56
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possibly the world’s first monolingual dictionary; the name means: approaching what is correct, proper, refined (c. 3rd C. B.C.E.)

A

Chinese Eyra

57
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Robert Cawdrey, 1604
2,500 words
explain visually hard words
used mostly for beginners in English
TABLE ALPHABETICALL is the \_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_
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first monolingual English dictionary

58
Q

who’s layout of the dictionary do we still use today?

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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

59
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wrote in a grand scale, and was no longer used for primers for learners

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A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

60
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Johnson’s layout used it for 1. ________ and for 2. ____ words. Got his sources from 3. ______ with over 4. _________ quotations

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  1. harder
  2. easier
  3. books
  4. 114,000
61
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man who made a dictionary to be an “American Standard”

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Noah Webster (1758-1843)

62
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the ___ is made from volunteers and staff. it took 25 years for A-Ant to be produced (1884) and another 44 years for the first edition to be done

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OED (Oxford English Dictionary)

63
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prescribe (give advice) on how to use words

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prescriptive dictionaries

64
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usually don’t judge language as correct or incorrect and tend to be more scholarly

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descriptive dictionaries

65
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the two most prestigious dictionaries are 1. _______ and are the 2. ___ and 3. _____ ____ ___ ___________ _______

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  1. descriptive
  2. OED
  3. Webster’s Third New International Dictionary
66
Q

the fullest, most comprehensive dictionaries produced are called

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unabridged dictionaries

67
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shorter, less complicated versions of their dictionaries

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abridged dictionaries

68
Q

what’s the best place for etymology entries online?

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OED

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