History of the Language: QUIZ 6

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1. The pronunciations Webster indicated were those of...

   
   (click here) The Midwest The South New England The Mid-Atlantic

2. The early Virginia settlements were populated by 
   colonists from... 

   
   (click here) East Anglia Kent Scotland England's West Country

3. Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary helped to create a 
   distinct American English.

   
   (click here) TRUE FALSE

4. The accent most commonly associated with present-day American 
   speech is thought to derive from... 

   
   (click here) The Puritans Southern American English The language of the Scots-Irish Northern American English

5. A distinctive feature associated with some varieties of 
   Northern American English is... 

   
   (click here) The widespread use of triphthongs The use of TO in the phrase, "quarter __ five" Loss of final (postvocalic) -r Use of the word POKE for SACK

6. Which of the following is NOT a feature of Appalachian speech? 

   
   (click here) HIT for IT in stressed position "a-prefixing" Double modals Loss of final (postvocalic) -r

7. Dialects are best characterized as... 

   
   (click here) Patterned and regular variations of the parent language Deviant versions of a standard language Signals of illiteracy and ignorance

8. The word HOUSE rhymes with JUICE (i.e., has the same 
   vowel sound as it did in OE) in...
   
   

   
   (click here) Cockney Scottish English East Anglian The Southwest of England

9. One part of England where initial /h/ is retained in speech is...
   

   
   (click here) London The far North East Anglia

10. The standard way of saying "Margaret is in the hospital" 
    in England is: "Margaret is in hospital."

    
    (click here) TRUE FALSE

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