American English – often abbreviated to AmE – is a variant of the English language, spoken mainly in the United States. About two-thirds of the world’s native speakers of English live in America and speak this variant. English was introduced to North America by British settlers during the colonization period […]
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A word is a unit of language that has a phonetic value (i.e. a sound) and has a meaning. It can also be written down in which case it will have a certain spelling. They are – as you might well imagine – the building blocks in English language learning […]
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Word Frequency is listing words according to how popular they are in the language. The method of determining the list is by taking a corpus of language and simply counting the words in it and how often each one is used. This usually brings up the following as the most […]
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LEXEME is the term used in Linguistics to refer to a word (a minimal unit of language) with a distinctive meaning (a semantic value) and often a specific cultural concept attached to it. banana, love, animal, run These are all lexemes. Lexemes can be seen as the basic elements of […]
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The Vocabulary is the collection of words in a language. In English there are estimated to be roughly 1,000,000 words in the language; this is a huge increase on the 50,000 words available in Old English. These words are generally derived from one of several main sources: Germanic (including Old […]
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