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English, 17.08.2021 22:20, imran2k13

HELP FINDING PROPER NOUNS AND ADJ, in this text. I WILL REPORT YOU IF YOU ADD LINKS. naccented vowels (in stones and name) became a (uh); then Çť disappeared Englisb spelling has not altered much since the 1600s, but pronunciation has changed greatly.
As a result, English spelling is not a reliable guide to the pronunciation of the
language.
VOCABULARY SOURCES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
• From Anglo-Saxon English: bread, good, shower, home, stones, fox
From Latin Christianity: priest, bishop, anthem, candle, epistle, hymn
• From Scandinavian settlers: husband, sky, skin, club, gape, root, egg, take, give, window,
leg, skin, crawl, die, sister
From Norman French and Vulgar Latin: legal terms (judge, jury, tort, attorney, crime,
assault), terms of rank (prince, duke, baron, peer, countess, parliament), and many random
words (honor, courage, season, manner, study, feeble, poor, castle, warranty, guarantee)
- From Latin and Greek during the Renaissance and afterward: words for science,
invention, and technology (conifer, cyclamen, helium, halogen, intravenous, isotope,
metronome, polymer, telephone)
From everywhere over the past three hundred years: tobacco, banana, pajamas, squash,
raccoon, prairie, chowder, canyon, ranch, chop suey, kudzu, pretzel, kindergarten, bagel,
pizza, coleslaw, bedspread, tomato, jazz, yams
An entry in a good dictionary will show you how to determine the origins of an
English word: its etymology.

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