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It’s understandable that many people will see the new slang as destroying English, but it’s not it’s simply the new era of words that are popular at that time and place. The language has changed throughout many era’s and it can be shown on the OED (Oxford English Dictionary) which is a very cool resource and allows one to see how far the English language has come and where it continues to…

of expression used by teenagers to communicate swiftly with their friends. Mostly, it is grammatically incorrect and filled with abbreviations. C. Miles (2012), a contributor for the Deseret News and student of English Education at Brigham Young University in Idaho explains that textspeak is the new Newspeak that Orwell conveyed in his novel 1984. Miles proves this to be true by researching the usage of shortened terms and made up words that don’t make sense in SMS. They are conveying the…

Unstained by the cruelties of reality, Adam and Eve had a wonderful life. They had animals, gardens, each other, Alpacas, a tent, the sun and moon, the Oxford English Dictionary, and a newfound attachment to the word incandescent. Reading from the Oxford English Dictionary, they learned the Latin origin of their new favorite word, which was derived from incandēscĕre, which means to inflame, warm, and glow, and Candēscĕre, which means to become white…

In a rather secular Europe in the 1850s, muscular Christianity and Sports were used as a tool to reinspire a new kind of faith in the youth of Europe. The movement, gaining a great deal of momentum, was quickly spread to the rest of the western world. However, afterwards, in America, there was a revitalization in this concept as a response to a loss of faith, a revival which lives on to this day, however different from its original inspirations. In James A. Mathisen’s article, :"Reviving…

“William Shakespeare of Stratford could not possibly have written the plays and poems ascribed to him, for a number of reasons. One was that he apparently did not have an education and experience necessary for their composition, having never attended university, and never traveled abroad” (Edmondson and Wells 23). Plays during his lifetime were of great value and taken seriously. Civilians felt as though it was their civic duty to involve themselves in the theater or to at minimum go and watch. …

His first civilian job was working for a famous dictionary organization, The Oxford English Dictionary. His work was mainly the history and etymology of words that were of Germanic origin. Particularly those words that began with the letter W. Shortly after this, he became the youngest professor at the University of Leeds. His job here was as a reader in English language. While at the University, he produced A Middle English Vocabulary, a piece of academic standard work that contained…

It was written by Keir Cutler on the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship website. This website is reliable because it is dedicated to Shakespeare and researching the topic of true authorship. First, Cutler says that there is no evidence to prove that William Shakespeare was a writer, only an actor. All there…

Throughout history many people are surprised at how some things that may have been thought to be stereotypically boring actually have a very interesting back story. The story of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary is a very interesting and peculiar story. The Oxford English Dictionary is the reference point for the entire English language so its impact on society is overwhelming. The impact of this dictionary can not be measured in any way as it is that important to the English…

Service can be defined in many ways and by many actions; personally, I view service as helping or doing work for someone, especially work that one may not be used to doing in everyday life. Volunteer work is truly my idea of service, mainly because of the fact that no charge is incorporated into the work, keeping it centered with good intentions and pure motives. I applied this exact attitude towards my work for UIndy’s Super Saturday of Service, specifically when I was sent to South Circle Farm…

Sir Philip Sidney, though not as influential in his daily life, was an effective poet, and an attentive scholar. He was born on the 30th of November in 1554, and died on the 17th of October in 1586 from a wound sustained in a minor skirmish (Biography.com). During his short life, Sidney served as an ambassador to the Queen of England, wrote several poems which were influential to great writers, including William Shakespeare himself, and even received a knighthood in 1583, three years before his…