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Graduate DiplomaReading & Writing
Spring Term Session 2
New VocabularyLexical Sets
Punctuation & Sentence StructureCollocations
Reporting Verbs and Nouns
1. kind of crab cake
2. bullying and corrupt city management officials
3. slang for an inexperienced person
4. an underdog (poor person with few opportunities to succeed) from the slums
5. a person who has skill with words, especially in writing
6. a noise made by a group of people when their expectations weren’t satisfied
7. a person whose job is to write dictionaries
8. ridiculous
9. a newly invented word
10. to be made King or Queen, or given an award (metaphorical)
11. somebody who competes with others to try to win something
coddies
chengguan noob
slumdog
wordsmith
a collective sigh of disappointment
lexicographer
preposterous
neologism
to be crowned
contender
'Web 2.0' declared millionth word in English language
Neologism created every 98 minutes, says language monitor –
which admits tally of English words an estimate.
It could have been "coddies", "chengguan", "slumdog" or even
"fundoo". "Jai Ho!" would have been fun. Even "noob" wouldn't
have been that bad. But when a group of US wordsmiths in
Texas claimed today that the millionth word in the English
language was Web 2.0, there must have been a collective sigh
of disappointment among those lexicographers who hadn't
already declared the idea preposterous.
The Global Language Monitor (GLM), based in Austin,
calculated that a neologism is created on average every 98
minutes and that "Web 2.0", a term for the next generation of
internet applications, should be formally crowned the millionth
word.
Paul JJ Payack, the president and chief word analyst of the
Global Language Monitor, said that the contenders to be the
millionth word had come from Silicon Valley, India, China, and
Poland, as well as Australia, Canada, the US and the UK.
"English has become a universal means of communication.
Never before have so many people been able to communicate
so easily with so many others," he said.
LEXICAL SETS
What can we call this lexical set?
Texas
Austin
Silicon Valley
India
China
Australia
Canada
the US
the UK
Poland
Poland
PLACES
Texas
Austin
Silicon Valley
India
China
Australia
Canada
the US
the UK
Poland
Poland
PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS INTERESTED IN “WORDS”
• The Global Language Monitor
• A group of US wordsmiths
• lexicographers
• Paul JJ Payack, the president and chief word analyst of the Global Language Monitor
WORDS (PARTICULARLY THE MILLIONTH ENGLISH)
tally of English words
millionth word
should be formally crowned the millionth word
contenders to be the millionth word
neologism
NEOLOGISMS
coddies
chengguan
slumdog
fundoo
jai ho!
noob
Web 2.0, a term for the next generation of internet applications,
ANNOUNCEMENT & REACTION
declared
admits
an estimate
a collective sigh of disappointment
declare the idea preposterous
'Web 2.0' declared millionth word in English language
neologism created every 98 minutes says language monitor
which admits tally of english words an estimate
it could have been coddies chengguan slumdog or even
fundoo jai ho would have been fun even noob wouldn t
have been that bad but when a group of us wordsmiths in
texas claimed today that the millionth word in the english
language was web 2 0 there must have been a collective sigh
of disappointment among those lexicographers who hadn t
already declared the idea preposterous
'Web 2.0' declared millionth word in English language
Neologism created every 98 minutes, says language monitor –
which admits tally of English words an estimate.
It could have been "coddies", "chengguan", "slumdog" or even
"fundoo". "Jai Ho!" would have been fun. Even "noob" wouldn't
have been that bad. But when a group of US wordsmiths in
Texas claimed today that the millionth word in the English
language was Web 2.0, there must have been a collective sigh
of disappointment among those lexicographers who hadn't
already declared the idea preposterous.
the global language monitor glm based in austin calculated
that a neologism is created on average every 98 minutes and
that web 2 0 a term for the next generation of internet
applications should be formally crowned the millionth word
paul jj payack the president and chief word analyst of the
global language monitor said that the contenders to be the
millionth word had come from silicon valley india china and
poland as well as australia canada the us and the uk english
has become a universal means of communication never before
have so many people been able to communicate so easily with
so many others he said
The Global Language Monitor (GLM), based in Austin,
calculated that a neologism is created on average every 98
minutes and that "Web 2.0", a term for the next generation of
internet applications, should be formally crowned the millionth
word.
Paul JJ Payack, the president and chief word analyst of the
Global Language Monitor, said that the contenders to be the
millionth word had come from Silicon Valley, India, China, and
Poland, as well as Australia, Canada, the US and the UK.
"English has become a universal means of communication.
Never before have so many people been able to communicate
so easily with so many others," he said.
COLLOCATION
'Web 2.0' declared millionth word in English language
Neologism created every 98 minutes, says language monitor –
which admits tally of English words an estimate.
It could have been "coddies", "chengguan", "slumdog" or even
"fundoo". "Jai Ho!" would have been fun. Even "noob" wouldn't
have been that bad. But when a group of US wordsmiths in
Texas claimed today that the millionth word in the English
language was Web 2.0, there must have been a collective sigh
of disappointment among those lexicographers who hadn't
already declared the idea preposterous.
The Global Language Monitor (GLM), based in Austin,
calculated that a neologism is created on average every 98
minutes and that "Web 2.0", a term for the next generation of
internet applications, should be formally crowned the millionth
word.
Paul JJ Payack, the president and chief word analyst of the
Global Language Monitor, said that the contenders to be the
millionth word had come from Silicon Valley, India, China, and
Poland, as well as Australia, Canada, the US and the UK.
"English has become a universal means of communication.
Never before have so many people been able to communicate
so easily with so many others," he said.
COLLOCATION
a group of US wordsmiths in Texas
a collective sigh of disappointment
declared the idea preposterous.
the next generation of
internet applications,
be formally crowned
a universal means of communication.
be able to communicate so easily
'Web 2.0' declared millionth word in English language
Neologism created every 98 minutes, says language monitor –
which admits tally of English words an estimate.
It could have been "coddies", "chengguan", "slumdog" or even
"fundoo". "Jai Ho!" would have been fun. Even "noob" wouldn't
have been that bad. But when a ________ of US wordsmiths in
Texas claimed today that the millionth word in the ________
language was Web 2.0, there must have been a collective
________ of disappointment among those lexicographers who
hadn't already declared the ________ preposterous.
The Global Language Monitor (GLM), based in Austin,
calculated that a neologism is created ________ average every
98 minutes and that "Web 2.0", a term for the ________
generation of internet ________, should be ________ crowned
the millionth word.
Paul JJ Payack, the president and chief word analyst of the
Global Language Monitor, said that the contenders to be the
millionth word had come ________ Silicon Valley, India, China,
and Poland, as well as Australia, Canada, the US and the UK.
"English has become a universal ________ of communication.
Never before have so many people been able to communicate
so ________ with so many others," he said.
COLLOCATION & REPORTING VERBS