Cover Work - 25th April 2014 - Classroom Activity 3 (Language Change)

Word	Semantic Change
Doctor	Narrowing
Gay	Pejoration
Virus	Broadening
Guts	Broadening
Punk	Pejoration
Vulgar	Pejoration
Web	Broadening
Mouse	Broadening
A domestic	Pejoration
Friendly fire	Weakening
Hoodie	Pejoration
Starve	Broadening

Cover Work - 24th April 2014 - Classroom Activity 2 (Language Change)

The complete table is shown below.

Blend	Blended Words
Motel	Motor + Hotel
Brunch	Breakfast + Lunch
Wikipedia	Wiki + Encyclopaedia
Docusoap	Documentary + Soap Opera
Guesstimate	Guess + Estimate
Chunnel	Channel + Tunnel
Skort	Shorts + Skirt
Oxbridge	Oxford + Cambridge
Labradoodle	Labrador + Poodle
Boxcercise	Boxing + Exercise
Netiquette	Net + Etiquette
Confuzzle	Confuse + Puzzle

Cover Work - 24th April 2014 - Classroom Activity 1 (Language Change)

The words in the paragraph come from a variety of different origins. Below I have listed them into similar semantic fields they come from. Some countries obviously have more of the words originating from there than the others.

Clothing:
Poncho = Spanish
Anorak = Greenlandic
Parka = Russian
Knapsack = Dutch
Dungarees = Hindi
Pyjamas = Persian

Food & Drink:
Barbecue = Spanish
Tortilla = Spanish
Marmalade = French
Chocolate = Aztec/Mexican
Coffee = Italian
Sushi = Japanese
Moussaka = Greek
Shish kebab = Turkish
Tea = Old Chinese
Sherbert = Turkish

Holiday:
Hammock = Spanish
Trekked = Afrikaans
Safari = Swahili
Kayak = Canadian
Cruise = Dutch
Ski = Norwegian

Miscellaneous:
Cannibal = Spanish
Hammock = Spanish
Mosquitoes = Spanish
Guitar = Spanish
Tobogganing = French
Assassin = French
Zero = French
Anonymous = Latin/Greek
Tattooed = Samoan
Pow-wow = Native America

How technology has changed the English language - Prezi Presentation

Below is a Prezi presentation created by George Pratt, Jess Diable and I. The Prezi is split into three main sections: abbreviations , new words/phrases and emojis and emoticons. The first and third sections are self explanatory but the second is mainly jsut bullet points so below is a paragraph that explains the new words and phrases slide.

The Oxford English Dictionary has always sought to be progressive and social networking sites have created a real language of the internet. New words circulate much more quickly as a result of the internet, as people see friends, or friends of friends using new words and copy them either face-to-face or on the internet. On the board are some new words and phrases that have entered the Dictionary in the past few years.

• Firstly is the word Phablet. This is a smartphone having a screen, which in terms of size, is bigger than a typical smartphone’s but smaller than a tablet.
• Next is Selfie. This is a photograph that someone takes of themself normally taken with a smartphone or webcam.
• Trolling has been in the news recently mainly due to the rise of trolls on Twitter targeting celebrities. They deliberately post tweets or comments intended to incite an angry response.
• A Hashtag is a word or phrase preceded by the hash sign (#), used on social media sites such as Twitter to identify messages on a specific topic.
• The word Retweet again comes from Twitter and this is when you repost or forward a message posted by another user.
• Google are a multi-billion dollar American company but their name has now been turned into the verb “to Google” which means to search for information about someone or something on the Internet using the search engine Google.

These are just a few examples with many more being added every year. It won’t be long before words such as “faxing” and “video calling” shall be replaced with words such as “Skypeing” and “Facetiming”.

How has technology changed the English language? - Practice article

How Has Technology Changed the English Language?