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| | | | | Contractions youre, well, cant, dont etc. generally make language sound less formal, and avoiding them makes it more formal. Over the years, contractions have become more acceptable higher up the formality spectrum. This is part of a general shift thats been going on for decades: styles of language that were once firmly seen | |
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| | | | | In the not-too-distant past English used the pronoun "him" to refer to individuals of unspecified gender in phrases such as "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion." This understandably annoys som... | |
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| | | | | Abbreviations: ModE = Modern English (18th century-present) EModE = Early Modern English (16th-17th centuries) ME = Middle English (12th-15th centuries) OE = Old English (7th-11th centuries) OF = Old French (9th-14th centuries) All of this information is from the amazingly comprehensive book English Pronunciation, 1500-1700 (Volume II) by E. J. Dobson, published in 1968, which... | |
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| | | Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest section of the Great Wall of China, predating previous estimates by approximately 300 years | ||
