Introduction to Linguistics - Assignment 14

James Madison University

[This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort, but you must do all parts of the assignment.]

  1. List at least one word or expression from your own dialect that you know is not used by all American English speakers.
  2. List at least one word or expression that you know some English speakers use but that you don't use.
  3. *If possible) Ask a parents or any other older adult you know well what expressions, if any, they hear you use that they do not use.
  4. Do the exercise at the end the chapter 7 in our textbook on words in British English vs. American English (Exercise 5).



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