English Unit 1 Quiz 2
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- Oxford English Dictionary
- ultimate dictionary authority today
- the science of dictionary making
- lexicography
- believed that language change was the result of language corruption
- language purists
- a record of the way in which language is actually used
- descriptive method
- Dictionary of the English Language
- Johnson's Dictionary
- attempts to slow or halt language change
- language fixing
- American Dictionary of the English Language
- Webster's Dictionary
- scholars who set standards for how language should be used
- grammarians
- a record of scholarly opinion regarding how language should be used
- prescriptive method
- the use of literary texts to establish context for definitions of words
- historical method
- the history of a word
- etymology
- a grammarian's attempt to keep the language from "decaying."
- Johnson's Dictionary
- dictionary set a standard for American English.
- Webster's
- dictionary represented the language of an educated elite
- Johnson's
- dictionary set a standard for British English
- Johnson's
- dictionary was the first to make wide-spread use of etymology.
- webster's
- dictionary represented the language of a broad base of educated people.
- webster's
- dictionary was the first to use the historical method
- Johnson's
- modeled patriotism and Christian conduct.
- webster's
- descriptions of the "status" of a word, usually in abbreviated form (archaic, obsolete, regional, nonstandard, slang)
- usage
- the accepted meaning of a word
- defenition
- the function of the word in a sentence
- part of speech
- the "history" of a word, beginning with the earliest language to which it can be traced
- etymology
- the word as it appears in other forms, correctly spelled
- alt. forms
- a date marking the first known appearance of the word in a written text
- earliest record use
- the word itself as it should be spelled
- entry word
- words meaning the same or nearly the same thing as the entry word
- synonyms
- the word as it should be pronounced
- respelling