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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What combines with vowels to make pronunciation rules difficult to define?
2. Many English speakers promote the particular variety of English that they speak while ____________________ the dialects of speakers from other regions.
3. Which words are appropriate for the common people to use?
4. The Celts are strongly influenced by which culture?
5. What brings some sort of uniformity to spelling and language?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the proof of the power of the English language in the modern world?
2. How does the author account for the changing pronunciation of English over time?
3. What is a third method of explaining where words come from?
4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of pictographic languages?
5. What is another method of explaining where words come from?
6. What seems to be a long-term benefit of a phonetic system as opposed to a pictograph system?
7. Explain how the language of one people can can change over time.
8. Explain the theories that languages are based in sound.
9. How did the English language evolve in the British Isles or what is now known as the United Kingdom?
10. What is the result of attempting to draw demarcations of accents throughout the U.S.?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Regions of America become well known for their speech and language quirks. For example, the people in Baltimore, Maryland, are famous for slurring their speech. Name at least three other examples of geographically distinct language stylings.
Essay Topic 2
Explain the differences between pictographic languages and phonetic languages and give examples of each.
Essay Topic 3
Explain the influence of Native American, French and Spanish words on the English language as it moved to North America. Give ten examples of these influences from your own family, town, state, etc.
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