Words in Everyday Life

A. P. Herbert acquired adjective adverb applied Arabic archaic archaisms associations Authorised Version back-formations become Bible biblical borrowed C. S. Lewis cliché cognate coined colloquial common compound words context curtailment denote derived describe dialect speakers Dictionary divergence Dutch eighteenth century element English language English words euphemism example express familiar foreign French German given Greek idiom influence Kenneth Hudson kind large number Latin liable linguistic literary literature loan-words loans Logan Pearsall Smith Macmillan metaphor metonymy Middle English Modern English native word near-synonyms noun number of words Old English once meant originally meant pairs passed pejorative phrases place-names poet poetry Popular etymology prefix pronunciation proper names quotation reader recognise reference reformers religious replaced resemble result Scandinavian semantic sense Shakespeare similar Sir Ernest Gowers sixteenth century slang sometimes specialised speech standard English suffix survived synonyms technical terms translations usage variant verb writing