English: Language Change

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Saphir Whorf: Determinism and Relativtism
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23  cards
10 reasons for social change
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22  cards
Semantic Shifts: Terms with examples
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19  cards
Euphemisms: Terms, Arguments and The Game of the Name.
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30  cards
Steven Poole: Political Term 'Weaponise'
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6  cards
Why we need new words by Andrew Kaufman
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7  cards
Jean Aitchison: A Web of Worries.
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27  cards
A LEVEL PAPER 2 SECTION B: Question 3 Tips and Tricks.
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9  cards
David Crystal: Fight for English
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24  cards
Timeline of the English Language
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17  cards
Standardisation: Process, Arguments & Why
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17  cards
The Role of Chancery Standard
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6  cards
What's in a new word? by OED.
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7  cards
Why we need to invent new words by Andrew K. Pt 2
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8  cards
Goodbye Herons, hello celebrity by Andrew Brown
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6  cards
Inkhorn Terms
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5  cards
Leo Rosten - The Joys of Yiddish
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6  cards
Robert Cawdrey's Total Alphabeticall
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8  cards
Thomas Blount's Glossographia
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6  cards
Bailey's Dictionarium Britannicum
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8  cards
Johnson's Dictionary
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9  cards
Grose's Vulgar Dictionary
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6  cards
The Oxford English Dictionary
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8  cards
Allsopp's Caribbean Dictionary.
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9  cards
The Oxford English Dictionary Online
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7  cards
Dictionary Evaluation
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5  cards
Informalisation
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17  cards
Prescriptivism: Swift, Humphrey & Truss
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14  cards
Johnson's Preface on Doomed to Clear Rubbish (1755)
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15  cards
How Dictionary Editors Find Meaning In The Age of Internet Speak
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7  cards
Familect
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8  cards
Polari
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10  cards
Americanisms: Linguistic Frameworks
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11  cards
Ghanian English
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6  cards
Global English: Overivew
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13  cards
International English Models
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17  cards
International English by David Crystal [EXTRA] [HOMEWORK]
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11  cards

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