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"Ascertainment”

Reduce the language to rule and set up a standard of correct usage

To refine it—that is, to remove supposed defects and introduce certain improvements

Fix it permanently in the desired form

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The principal characteristics of this age which affected the course of the English language emerged early and maintained their influence throughout the century, in spite of the eruption of some radical challenges in the final two decades.

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The History of English - The English of Science (5/10)

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The social, commercial, technological, and intellectual forces that were released in the Renaissance had profound effects on the English language

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The concern that the eighteenth century expressed for the purity of the language included what seems like an undue apprehension that English was being ruined by the intrusion of

foreign words.

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Its Reflection in the Attitude toward the Language.

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Contracted by London booksellers

Paid with 1500 guineas

Took him 7 years to finish

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Australia:
Nugget

Boomerang

Walkabout

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The social, commercial, technological, and intellectual forces that were released in the
Renaissance had profound effects on the English language.

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Great Britain made its first tentative efforts to establish overseas settlements in the 16th century. Maritime expansion, driven by commercial ambitions and by competition with France, accelerated in the 17th century and resulted in the establishment of settlements in North America and the West Indies.

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The spirit of scientific rationalism in philosophy was reflected in many other domains of thought.

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In the 1660s the Royal Society, which served as coordinator and clearing house for
English scientific endeavors, proposed a solution in which the English language would
play a crucial role.
Latitudinarian Anglicans and moderate Puritans were the leading proponents of this solution

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Some Effects of Expansion on the Language.

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Some Effects of Expansion on the Language.

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The most obvious effects of English expansion are to be seen in the vocabulary.

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The Caribbean :
Barbecue

Canoe

Rum punch

Cannibal

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Old English had no
progressive passive.