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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 24, 1933
Page
1
We are taking orders for suits for the show and Easter. Place your order now to get tailored to measure suits by Garners. Mens trousers offered in plain and fancy serges and fancy tweeds, tailored to measure at £1 and jackets at £3 10 0.
A local advertiser promotes new radios with easy terms and slightly used guaranteed piano sets at very low prices. The message urges inspection of pianos touted as cheaper than expected, appealing to families with children to learn music.
The article traced English vocabulary growth from a 40 000 word base in old texts to about 400 000 in Webster 1910 as a result of numerous borrowings. It outlines Anglo Saxon origins after Angles and Saxons, Celtic prehistory, and later Latin French Greek and Scandinavian influences. It notes Latin borrowings with Christianity in the sixth century and the Renaissance, French influence after 1066, and continued French contact through 1250 to 1450 and Charles II’s era to today.
The article explores the diverse roots of English vocabulary and how words migrate from Greek, Latin, French, and other languages. It notes hybrid compounds like macadamization, contrasts synonyms such as notorious, famous, and illustrious, and discusses spelling and pronunciation changes from Shakespeare to modern American usage, predicting evolving meanings in both American and English vocabularies.
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