Language Change

Lexis

anorak- Greenland
Barbecue- Arawakan(Haiti)
Barrack-French and Spanish
Blizzard- American
Bongo- Latin American Spanish
Bonsai- Japanese
Boomerang- Dharuk
Budgerigar- Aboringinal
Bungalow- Hindu
Chipmunk-Ojibwa
Chutney-Hindi
Dinghy-Hindi
Dungarees-Hindi
Gnu- Dutch
Haiku- Japanese
Hamburger- Germany
Igloo- Canada
Kangaroo- Aborignal 
Karaoke-Japanese
Ketchup- Chinese
llama-Spanish 
Mohair- Arabic
potato-Spanish
puma-Spanish
Pajamas- Hindu
Safari-Arabic
Sauna-Finnish
shampoo-Hindu
Sherbet-Turkish
Ski- Norwegian
Skyscraper- American
Taboo- Tongan
Tattoo-Dutch
Tea-Chinese
Toboggan- French 
Tortilla-American Spanish
totem- Ojibwa
Trek- South African
Tycoon- Japanese
yeti- Tibetan



Task two 
phonological

The article addresses the problem of accents being "flattened" for the sake of fitting in and when attending a job interview. A study carried out found that a third of people questioned were ashamed to "flatten" out their accent. The writer of the article has a friend that was Asian and has christened their children with English names to "make it easy" for them to fit in. Therefore, the writer of the article believes that accents should not matter anymore and we should not be ashamed to have an accent. If we change our accent then it is changing something that is vital to the person you are.


In my experiences of accents i have always been judged as i used to be very Bristolian, also, people view you to be less intelligent if you have a specific accent, for example, the Essex accent.



Grammar and Lexis


The diary entry is made up of minor and compound sentences. Also, the word order is very different to how we would order sentences today, for example "as ever i saw" the adverb " ever" is written before the subject " i", also, today we would shift the tense slightly for example we would tend to say "seen" not "saw." we now have standardised which order to put adjectives, nouns  and verbs into a sentence, for example " a good looking tall man" we would tend to say "tall" before "good looking" today.  Also, the length of the sentences are very long, the third paragraph is made up of two sentences. The use pf prepositions used in that time showed there wasn't a standard way of using them for example "opposite to my window" the use of two prepositions are not used today, this could be due to standardisation of the English Language when dictionaries where starting to get printed.