Language change & issues

1) Perjoration is a process by which words are acquire negative meaning
2) "Ethnic cleansing" "collateral damage" and "nuclear deterrent" are examples of euphemisms
3) Dialect leveling is a decrease in dialect differences
4) Prescriptivism is the study of language with the intention of controlling it-by dictating the rules of usage
5) 1755 is significant for the development of the English Language because it is when Samuel Johnson published his dictionary
6) Jargon is technical language or field specific lexis
7) Amelioration is a process by which words gain a positive status or become more socially acceptable       
8) The word process cupboard is not an example of borrowing
9) Etymological fallacy is the mistaken belief that a words earliest historical meaning is its only true meaning
10) Time was once pronounced as team, see like say and now like noo. These are examples of phonological differences brought about by the Great Vowel Shift
11) Fax, flu and memo are examples of abbreviations or shortening
12) The use in the USA, of phrases such as "I guess" for "I think" and "gotten" are examples of Americans retaining an earlier form of English that has largely died out in Britian
13) Bidialectalism is a term used by Crystal and others to describe the ability to describe two dialects of the same language
14) Government, peasant, crime and justice are words loaned from Latin
15) The prescriptive "Short Introduction to English Grammar" was written by Bishop Robert Lowth
16) The printing press was introduced to England by William Caxton in 1476
17) Accommodation theory was developed by Howard Giles to suggest that we adjust out accent and speech to the person that we are adressing
18) Children, oxen and men are irregular plurals that are a hangover from a time when English had a greater number of latinate words
19) When Johnathan Green describes "the counter language, the language of the rebel, the outlaw, the despised, the marginal, the young" he is talking about slang
20) The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis" put forward the theory that