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Words that went extinct
By Kimberly Joki
Dictionaries incorporate new words every year. Some are pop culture inventions like jeggings, photobomb, and meme. Other words, like emoji and upvote, spring up from technology and social media. Dictionaries respond by creating definitions for anyone who cares to know what a twitterer is. And thank goodness they do; you can learn what an eggcorn is simply by turning a few pages in your trusty updated dictionary.
Interestingly, not all newly added words are recent developments. The Oxford English Dictionary June 2015 new words list included autotune, birdhouse, North Korean, and shizzle! North Korea was founded in 1948. The initial release of the autotuner audio processor was in 1997. Before adding a slang term like shizzle, dictionary publishers weigh the current popularity, predicted longevity, and other factors. Just this year alone, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary welcomed about 1,700 new arrivals.
With more and more words coined every year, dictionaries couldn’t possibly add them all to their existing word banks. Can you imagine a dictionary containing all the words ever used in English? It would be impossible to lift! With each yearly edit, dictionary editors must discard some words to make room for new ones.
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The Sami languages, spoken in Finland, Norway, and Sweden, reportedly include more than 150 words related to snow and ice. In the 1590s, the English language had a word for recently melted snow—snowbroth. Now, English speakers simply call it water or melted snow. In fact, words that are markedly specific seem more vulnerable to extinction. A 19th-century dictionary included Englishable, a term to describe how appropriate a word is for the English language. However, English is a dynamic language, always accepting and abandoning words. Apparently, Englishable itself isn’t Englishable; it’s now obsolete.
Do you favor any infrequently used words? If so, use them now and often. . . A word’s best defense against extinction is regular use.
(Source: http://www.grammarly.com/blog/2015/words-that-went-extinct/)
Consider the following statements about the text, judging if they are true (T) or false (F).
( ) Pressing a placebo button does not bring us any benefits, as we cannot control over a specific system.
( ) Professor Lange proved that is psychologically better to do nothing than to do something.
( ) Even though it has no control over the system, pressing a button when crossing the street creates a sense of closeness to people around you.
The correct order of filling in the parenthesis, from the top to the bottom, is:
In the sentence “A crossing in central London had programmed intervals for red and green lights” (l.14-15), the underlined verbal locution is in the ________________. If we put it in the present perfect continuous, it would be written as ______________.
Mark the alternative that correctly and respectively fill in the blanks above.
Consider the fragment of the text and the following statements:
“A gaggle of commuters assembles inside and outside the train” (l.02).
I. ‘gaggle’ means, informally, a disorderly or noisy group of people.
II. ‘commuters’ designates people who travel some distance to work on a regular basis.
III. ‘assembles’ indicates a crowd that gather together in one place for a common purpose.
Which ones are correct?
– Consider the sentence: “If I’m just standing at the corner, I may not even see the light change” (l.38), and the following statements:
I. It is an example of the first conditional.
II. The modal verb ‘may’ expresses possibility.
III. ‘may’ could be replaced by ‘will’ without causing any difference in meaning.
Which ones are INCORRECT?
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