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GCSE English Practice Test: Language Change - Including Middle And Old English
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Language change reflects and is influenced by changes in culture. New experiences will always require new words and ways to describe them.

GCSE English Practice Test: Language Change - Including Middle And Old English
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1. Which of the following words has come into the English language from the world of I.T.?
2. 'A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, and mounch'd, and mounch'd, and mounch'd: "Give me," quoth I: -- "Aroint thee, witch!" the rump-fed ronyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger: But in a sieve I'll thither sail...' These lines from Macbeth are an example of...
3. Words which are no longer commonly used are referred to as...
4. Which of the following is written in Old English?
5. Which one of the following English words comes from French, rather than Old English?
6. 'A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, and mounch'd, and mounch'd, and mounch'd: "Give me," quoth I: -- "Aroint thee, witch!" the rump-fed ronyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger: But in a sieve I'll thither sail...' These lines from Macbeth are an example of...
7. Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is written in...
8. Which one of the following English words comes from French, rather than Old English?
9. Which of these is NOT a reason why language changes over time?
10. Which of these is NOT a reason why language changes over time?

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