PowerPoint Notes (Unit 1)

Question 1

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

Answer 1

approx. 65%

Question 2

C.E. stands for _________ ____

Answer 2

Common Era

Question 3

A.D. stands for _____ _______

Answer 3

Anno Domini

Question 4

A.D. is placed ______ dates

Answer 4

before

Question 5

L. (in the year of the Lord)

Answer 5

Anno Domini

Question 6

C.E. is placed ______ after dates

Answer 6

after

Question 7

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

Answer 7

before the common era

Question 8

B.C. stands for _______ _____

Answer 8

before Christ

Question 9

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

Answer 9

after

Question 10

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

Answer 10

A.D.

Question 11

what century is 550 C.E.?

Answer 11

the sixth century C.E.

Question 12

what century is 420 B.C.E.?

Answer 12

the fifth century B.C.E.

Question 13

what century is A.D. 30?

Answer 13

the first century A.D.

Question 14

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.)

Answer 14

1. Greek
2. Aegean
3. 2nd
4. 1500

Question 15

The form of writing 1. _________ __ was written in 2. ________

Answer 15

1. Linear B

2. Greek

Question 16

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

Answer 16

1. Alexander the Great
2. 356-23
3. Greek
4. culture
5. Eastern

Question 17

1. _______ became the 2. _________ language (3. ______ ______) of the 4. _______ Mediterranean

Answer 17

1. Greek
2. international
3. lingua franca
   Eastern

Question 18

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. _______

Answer 18

1. Greeks
2. European
3. English

Question 19

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

Answer 19

1. Romans
2. central
3. Italian
4. Rome

Question 20

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

Answer 20

1. middle
2. first
3. 500

Question 21

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

Answer 21

1. Christ
2. 1
3. Mediterranean

Question 22

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

Answer 22

1. Latin
2. dominant
3. Western
4. Greek
5. Eastern

Question 23

the 1. ______ _____ of the 2. _______ Mediterranean was 3. ______

Answer 23

1. lingua franca
2. Western
3. Latin

Question 24

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

Answer 24

1. Romans
2. Greek
3. Greek

Question 25

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

Answer 25

1. Western 2. Latin 3. Roman Empire 4. middle 5. first 6. independent

Question 26

the 1. _______, 2. ______-speaking part of the 3. ______ _____ lived on till 4. _____C.E.

Answer 26

1. eastern 2. Greek 3. Roman Empire 4. 1453

Question 27

1. ____ remained the language of 2. ________ in the 3. _______ region 'till just a few 4. ________ ago

Answer 27

1. Latin 2. education 3. Western 4. centuries

Question 28

in everyday life, 1. _____ slowly changed to become the modern 2. _______ languages such as 3. _______, 4. ______, 5. ______, etc

Answer 28

1. Latin 2. Romance 3. French 4. Spanish 5. Italian

Question 29

1. ______ is NOT a 2. ________ lang; as it does not 3. ________ directly from 4. _______

Answer 29

1. English 2. Romance 3. descend 4. Latin

Question 30

1. ________ has been influenced by 2. _______, 3. _________ lang, and 4. ______

Answer 30

1. English 2. Latin 3. Romance 4. Greek

Question 31

in 1. ______ times, 2. _______ was inhabited largely by 3. ______ speakers

Answer 31

1. Roman 2. Britain 3. Celtic

Question 32

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

Answer 32

1. Romans 2. England 3. first

Question 33

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

Answer 33

1. Latin 2. fourth 3. Germans 4. Roman Empire

Question 34

many of these 1. ______ were fleeing the 2. ____, an 3. ________ people making incursions into 4. _______ from the east

Answer 34

1. Germans 2. Huns 3. Asiatic 4. Europe

Question 35

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

Answer 35

1. German 2. Visigoths 3. fourth 4. fifth

Question 36

The 1. ________ sacked 2. ____ under their king 3. _____ in 4. ____ C.E.

Answer 36

1. Visigoths 2. Rome 3. Alaric 4. 410

Question 37

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

Answer 37

1. Romans 2. Britain 3. western 4. roman 5. 476

Question 38

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

Answer 38

1. Germanic 2. Anglo-Saxon 3. Old English 4. 400 5. 450 6. 1100

Question 39

1. _____-______ gradually replaced Celtic lang in much of G.B. (bringing only little embedded 2. ________ words like 3. ______ and 4. ____

Answer 39

1. Anglo-Saxon 2. Latinate 3. street 4. wine

Question 40

1. _______, speakers of another 2. _______ lang, 3. ___ _______, arrived in a second wave of 4. ________ invasions starting around 5. _____ C.E. lasting some 6. ______ years

Answer 40

1. Vikings 2. Germanic 3. Old Norse (Frenchy???) 4. Germanic 5. 800 6. 200

Question 41

the 1. ____-______ who were not 2. ________ og, were converted around 3. ____ C.E.

Answer 41

1. Anglo-Saxons 2. Christian 3. 600

Question 42

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

Answer 42

1. Christianity 2. Western 3. Latin 4. Greek 5. Latin 6. Greek 7. English

Question 43

in 1. ____ (2. _____ of 3. _______) 4. ______ __ _______, a 5. _____, conquered 6. ________

Answer 43

1. 1066 2. Battle 3. Hastings 4. William the Conqueror 5. Norman (France) 6. England

Question 44

1. _____ is a lang 2. ________ from 3. ____, so this is the 4. _______ great wave of 5. _____ influence on 6. _______

Answer 44

1. French 2. derived 3. Latin 4. second 5. Latin 6. English

Question 45

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.

Answer 45

1. Old English 2. Norman 3. Middle English 4. 1100 5. Modern English 6. 1500

Question 46

1. ______ ______ corresponds to the intro of the 2. _______ _____ to 3. _______ by 4. ______ ______ in 5. ______

Answer 46

1. Middle English 2. printing press 3. England 4. William Caxton 5. 1476

Question 47

an example of a Middle English writer would be ______

Answer 47

Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales

Question 48

everyday, household words are mostly _________

Answer 48

Germanic

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Latin, either from French or directly from Latin

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Greek

Question 51

there are different 1. ______ of 2. _______

Answer 51

1. registers | 2. English

Question 52

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

Answer 52

Shakespeare

Question 53

1. ___ _______ __ ____ is the first 2. ______-______ king to become 3. ________

Answer 53

1. King Ethelbert of Kent 2. Anglo-Saxon 3. Christian

Question 54

1. ____ conversion brought w/ it 2. _____

Answer 54

1. Kent's | 2. Latin

Question 55

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

Answer 55

1. Urra 2. hubullu 3. Louvre 4. Paris 5. 2300 6. dictionary 7. bilingual

Question 56

possibly the world's first monolingual dictionary; the name means: approaching what is correct, proper, refined (c. 3rd C. B.C.E.)

Answer 56

Chinese Eyra

Question 57

``` Robert Cawdrey, 1604 2,500 words explain visually hard words used mostly for beginners in English TABLE ALPHABETICALL is the _____ ___________ _____ _______ ```

Answer 57

first monolingual English dictionary

Question 58

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

Answer 58

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Question 59

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

Answer 59

A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

Question 60

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

Answer 60

1. harder 2. easier 3. books 4. 114,000

Question 61

man who made a dictionary to be an "American Standard"

Answer 61

Noah Webster (1758-1843)

Question 62

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

Answer 62

OED (Oxford English Dictionary)

Question 63

prescribe (give advice) on how to use words

Answer 63

prescriptive dictionaries

Question 64

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

Answer 64

descriptive dictionaries

Question 65

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

Answer 65

1. descriptive 2. OED 3. Webster's Third New International Dictionary

Question 66

the fullest, most comprehensive dictionaries produced are called

Answer 66

unabridged dictionaries

Question 67

shorter, less complicated versions of their dictionaries

Answer 67

abridged dictionaries

Question 68

what's the best place for etymology entries online?

Answer 68

OED