2014-12-04 Communication: English trivia

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Old English / Anglo Saxon
1066
Middle English
c 1500
Modern English
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(the word below NOON is "motel")

all the words you need for 1-9 are in the image at the top of the page

"eponym" = a word that comes from a person's name

1 NOON
2 close, row, wind, tear, live, lead, minute
3 brunch, motel (portmanteau)
4 laser, radar, scuba
5 casanova, boycott, saxophone
6 rhythm ('y' is sometimes a vowel) cwm ('w' is a vowel)
7 redivider (also "noon" and "radar")
8 A man, a plan, a canal - Panama.
  Was it a car or a cat I saw?
9 party, boot

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/02/demetri-martins-palindrome-poem.html

10 It is a pangram (it contains all the letters).
11 the, of, and, to, a, in, that, I, it, was, is, he, for, you, on, with, as, be, had, but, they, at, his, have, not
   [the] [be] [and] [of] [a] - top lemmas
   etaoinshrdlcu
12 I
13 forty, although, Wednesday
14 bet, get, set
 - rhyme
 - base form verbs
 - irregular verbs
15 Oxford English Dictionary - 615,000
   "common use" - 200,000
16 30,000 for an educated person (30k in Shakespeare)
   passive - closer to 40k
   active - 25k-30k
17 In a Latin examination James, where John had had "had had", had had "had". "Had had" had had the examiner's approval.

I know that that "that" had had "had" after it.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
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Homework: explain to me what the "buffalo" sentence means.