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VARIATION OVER TIME - Coggle Diagram
VARIATION OVER TIME
Lexical change
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Initialism - word made from initial letters, each sounded out
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Factors
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Travel, Trade, Colonialism?
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Punctuation change
expansion of symbols as written mode, linked to status
also simplified, sparse writing style is popular in recent years
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15th century added full stop, semi colon, question and exclamations, apostrophes for contractions
Capitalisation in 18th century standardises, 15th-17th any noun thought important was capitalised
Orthographical change
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phonemes became silent, e.g. 'b' in thumb
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silent letters, 'psychology'
consonant clusters, 'dge' germanic