English Language: Lexical Change and Attitudes Towards It

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What is lexical change?

Addition of new words into vocabulary. Incorporation of words from other cultures/ languages. Removing of old words. Formation of new words.

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What are the most common word classes affected by lexical change?

Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.

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Who was Samuel Daniel?

In 1599 he spoke of English as ‘treasure of our tongue’, ‘the greatness of our style’ and ‘our best glory’

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Who was Cheke

A Cambridge professor who said ‘Our own tung should be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borrowing of other tunges’