The document discusses the ongoing evolution of the English language, highlighting how new technologies and societal changes contribute to linguistic shifts. It emphasizes that while some may view older forms as more elegant or correct, language is simply changing rather than deteriorating. The text also presents interesting facts about English, including examples of evolving words and unique characteristics of the language.

1. PANKAJ KUMAR
IIBM PATNA
“IS THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
CHANGING”
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2. INTRODUCTION
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 “Language is always changing”
 No language has more synonyms then english.
 Language change due to new technologies.
 new product and new experience and new words
that refer to them clearly.
PANKAJ KUMAR, IIBM PATNA; source:LINGUA BULLETIN,JANUARY 2013 1/21/2013

3. EXAMPLE
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 Fax machine is originally known as facsimile
machine.
 It allowed one person to send another a copy.
 As machine become common people began to using
shorter form “FAX” to refer both machine and
document both.
PANKAJ KUMAR, IIBM PATNA; source:LINGUA BULLETIN,JANUARY 2013 1/21/2013

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 No two people have had exactly language
experience.
 Various group in society use language as a way of
making their group identity.
 Change in the language begin with teen and young
adults.
 We get new words from many different place and
borrow them from other language.
PANKAJ KUMAR, IIBM PATNA; source:LINGUA BULLETIN,JANUARY 2013 1/21/2013

5. EXAMPLE
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 We do for shortening longer words (gym from
gymnasium),(brunch from breakfast and launch).
 For hundred year ago.
 Word peas was used to refer single PEA or a bunch
of them.
 Over time, people assumed the Pease was a plural
form, for which pea must be singular, and a new
word PEA was born.
 Old English word order was much more free than
that of modern English.
PANKAJ KUMAR, IIBM PATNA; source:LINGUA BULLETIN,JANUARY 2013 1/21/2013

6. “wasn’t English more elegant in
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Shakespeare's day”
 People tend to think that older forms of language
are more elegant, logical or correct than modern
forms, but it’s just not true.
 That language is always changing doesn’t mean it’s
getting worse ; it’s just becoming different.
PANKAJ KUMAR, IIBM PATNA; source:LINGUA BULLETIN,JANUARY 2013 1/21/2013

7. Why can’t people Just use correct
English ?
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 Correct English people usually mean standard
English.
 Language used in government, education and other
formal context.
 Standard English is just one dialect of English.
 Every dialect of every language has rule.
PANKAJ KUMAR, IIBM PATNA; source:LINGUA BULLETIN,JANUARY 2013 1/21/2013

8. INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ENGLISH
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LANGUAGE
 The most common letters in English are R S T L N E.
 “RHYTHMS” is the longest English word without the
normal vowels, A, E, I, O, U.
 There is only ONE word in the English language with
three CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS ……
“Bookkeeper”
 Only 3 words in the English language end in “ceed”:
“proceed, exceed, and succeed”.
PANKAJ KUMAR, IIBM PATNA; source:LINGUA BULLETIN,JANUARY 2013 1/21/2013

9. INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ENGLISH
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LANGUAGE
 The word “QUEUE” is the only word in the language
that is still pronounced the same way when
pronounced the same way when the last four letters
removed.
 The shortest word in the English language with all
it’s letters in alphabetical order is the word
“almost”.
PANKAJ KUMAR, IIBM PATNA; source:LINGUA BULLETIN,JANUARY 2013 1/21/2013

10. 10 PANKAJ KUMAR, IIBM PATNA; source:LINGUA BULLETIN,JANUARY 2013 1/21/2013