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book The History of English: An Introduction 2nd Edition by Stephan Gramley cover

The History of English: An Introduction 2nd Edition by Stephan Gramley

Edition 2ISBN: 978-1138501096
book The History of English: An Introduction 2nd Edition by Stephan Gramley cover

The History of English: An Introduction 2nd Edition by Stephan Gramley

Edition 2ISBN: 978-1138501096
Exercise 10
How "undemocratic" is the massive import of Romance vocabulary? The great grammarian Jespersen favored word-formation. About learned words, he wrote, "The worst thing, however, that can be said against [them] is their difficulty and the undemocratic character which is a natural outcome of their difficulty. A great many of them will never be used or understood by anybody that has not had a classical education" (Jespersen 1905: 149; also Strang 1970).
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