Worldwide Importance :-
- Mandarin Chinese with nearly billion speakers is numerically the first of the world’s tongues. While Chinese is concentrated in central Asia, English is spoken around the globe.
- Over a Billion people use English either as a first or second language.
- 70% of the world’s mail addressed in English.
- 100% of communication of world’s airports carried on in English.
- After 1962 when China expelled Soviet engineers. China’s second language became English.
Immense Cosmopolitan Vocabulary :-
- Anglo Saxon did not have over 100,000 words. While, most comprehensive dictionaries of Moern English place Vocabulary 1,000,000 words.
- Today some estimates place the total vocabulary at 5,000,000 words.
Source of
Vocabulary:-
- Victorian Expansion-Australia-boomerang South Africa- Khaki.
- Sceince and technology-download, interface.
- War stockpile, escalate.
- Invasion of Danes-sky, Invasion of Normans plaintiff.
- Missionary activites of Pope Gregory-vespars
Three layers of Synonyms:-
- Nixon quits. (Anglo Saxon)
- Nixon resigns. (Norman French)
- Nixon abdicates. (Latin)
- The Senate asks Haldemann. (Anglo-Saxon)
- The senate questions Haldemann.( French)
- The senate interrogates Haldemann. ( Latin)
ask, question, interrogates are synonyms.
Inflectional Simplicity:-
- Affixes or endings added to a stem word which changesthe meaning or form of that words. In latin, Puella Agricolam Amat. In English, Girl farmer love.
Natural Gender:-
- All Indo-European languages other than English arbitrarily divde words into Masculine, feminine and neuter.
- German-Der Bleistift (the pencil) (masculine) , Die Feder-(the pen) (feminine)
- Spanish- El Camino (the road) (masculine) , la mesa (the table) (feminine)
Old English had Grammatical Gender:-
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Old English
Se Mann (Masculine)
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Modern English
The man
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Seo Hlaedige (Feminine)
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The woman (or lady)
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Saet Maegden (Neuter)
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The girl (or maiden)
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