1. Choose a passage from: Group 1: a Shakespeare play Group 2: a modern magazine or newspaper

1. 1. Choose a passage from: Group 1: a Shakespeare play Group 2: a modern magazine or newspaper Group 3: a modern (postwar) poem Group 4: a 19th century novel • To find out which group you are in, click here • This is not group work; each student choses their* own passage. • Include a photocopy ór printout of your passage with your returned assignment.

2. 2. Enter the first 50 words of your passage in the left-hand column in Table 1 • Download Table 1:Word filepdf file

3. 05.15.11 History of English 20% assignment, March 2007 Due date: 16 April 2007 Name:_______________________________________Group:____________ Passage:_____________________________________(include photocopy)

4. 3. In the middle column, give the etymology code of the word concerned. • Each word will be one of the following types:

9. Looking up the etymology of English words • Oxford English Dictionary • Compact OED • Douglas Harper’s “Etymonline"

13. Notes: • Enter the words as they appear in the passage and in the order they appear in the passage. • Leave out all proper names and place names, but include all small  grammatical or structural words such as the articles "a" and "the". • Include all repeated words and count them each time they occur - you are analysing the passage as it stands.

14. Contractions such as "we'll", "they've"  are two words. Write them out in full, one on each line. • Compound words such as "newspaper", "web-site",  are also two words. • Words made of morphemes from different sources also count as two words - e.g. “beautiful” is from French “beauty” and English “full”. • Look up the basic form of inflected forms; thus for "driving", "driven" etc., look up "drive". • However, for irregular forms such as she/her, be/is etc, which have various roots, look up the actual word.

15. Find the earliest form, even if this is not the same word class. For instance, if you are looking for the etymology of "balanced" you should find the verb "balance", whose earliest occurrence is 1694; but the noun "balance" occurs in 1350. • Use the Comment column to remind yourself of repeated or compound words, and to note other points of interest.

16. 4. Count up and calculate the proportions (in percentages) of each type. • Enter your figures in Table 2. • Download Table 2:Word filepdf file

17. TALE 2

18. Stanley Kubrick's film Full Metal Jacket must rank as one of the grimmest portrayals of the Vietnam war. A leading character, dubbed "Joker", is asked why he volunteered; he replies: "I wanted to meet interesting, stimulating people from an ancient land ... and kill them." Confronted with the harrowing photographic evidence of abuse by British soldiers in Iraq, it is tempting to add the phrase "humiliate, sexually abuse, and torture" to this admission. We seem to have moved a long way from the promise of restoring democracy to the Iraqi people. Word

20. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

21. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

22. The New Oxford Dictionary of English

23. The New Oxford Dictionary of English

24. Oxford English Dictionary

25. Oxford English Dictionary

29. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

30. Oxford English Dictionary

31. From Shakespeare, Tempest, Act I Scene 2 O, was she so? I must Once in a month recount what thou hast been, Which thou forget'st. This damn'd witch Sycorax, For mischiefs manifold, and sorceries terrible To enter human hearing, from Argier Thou know'st was banish'd; for one thing she did They would not take her life. Is not this true?

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