14. The plays
Comedies Tragedies Histories
All's Well That Ends
Well, As You Like
It, Cymbeline, The Comedy
of Errors, Love's Labour's
Lost, Measure for
Measure, The Merchant of
Venice, The Merry Wives of
Windsor, A Midsummer
Night's Dream, Much Ado
About
Nothing, Pericles, The
Taming of the Shrew
Antony and
Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Ham
let, Julius Caesar, King
Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Ro
meo and Juliet, Timon of
Athens, Titus Andronicus
1,2, and 3 Henry VI, 1 and
2 Henry IV, King
John, Henry V, Henry
VIII, Richard II, Richard III
19. New words
By
combining
Developmen
t in
computers
Words from
Latin and
Greek
Words , that
have been
given new
meanings
Words from
foreign
languages
Fords from
the name of
things we
buy
Fingerprint(18
59)
airport(1919)
Streetwise(19
65)
Online(1950)
User-
friendly(1977)
Download(198
0)
Photograph(18
39
Helicopter(18
72)
Aeroplane(187
4)
Video(1958)
Pilot(1907)
Cassette(1960
)
Disco(1964)
Pizza(1935)
Coke(1909)
Walkman(1981
)
22. OED editions
First OED The first OED was completed in 1928
and had a total of 414,800 words.
Second OED The second OED , produced in 1989 ,
explains the meanings of 615,100 words.
Third OED The Third Edition of the OED is already
currently available in the form of
quarterly updates of new and revised
material. This revision project is unlikely
to finish before 2018.
23. Modern English types
• National:
British English
American English
Australian English
Canadian English
Hybrid:
Pidgin English
Beach-la-Mar
Kroo English
24. Australia New Zealand
These countries due to geographical isolation
unexposed strong influence of other
languages and cultures.
