Graduate Diploma Reading & Writing Spring Term Session 2 New Vocabulary Lexical Sets Punctuation & Sentence Structure Collocations Reporting Verbs and Nouns

1.kind of crab cake 2.bullying and corrupt city management officials 3.slang for an inexperienced person 4.an underdog (poor person with few opportunities to succeed) from the slums 5.a person who has skill with words, especially in writing 6.a noise made by a group of people when their expectations weren’t satisfied 7.a person whose job is to write dictionaries 8.ridiculous 9.a newly invented word 10.to be made King or Queen, or given an award (metaphorical) 11.somebody who competes with others to try to win something coddies chengguan noob slumdog wordsmith a collective sigh of disappointment lexicographer preposterous neologism to be crowned contender

'Web 2.0' declared millionth word in English language Neologism created every 98 minutes, says language monitor – which admits tally of English words an estimate. It could have been "coddies", "chengguan", "slumdog" or even "fundoo". "Jai Ho!" would have been fun. Even "noob" wouldn't have been that bad. But when a group of US wordsmiths in Texas claimed today that the millionth word in the English language was Web 2.0, there must have been a collective sigh of disappointment among those lexicographers who hadn't already declared the idea preposterous.

The Global Language Monitor (GLM), based in Austin, calculated that a neologism is created on average every 98 minutes and that "Web 2.0", a term for the next generation of internet applications, should be formally crowned the millionth word.Global Language Monitor Paul JJ Payack, the president and chief word analyst of the Global Language Monitor, said that the contenders to be the millionth word had come from Silicon Valley, India, China, and Poland, as well as Australia, Canada, the US and the UK. "English has become a universal means of communication. Never before have so many people been able to communicate so easily with so many others," he said.

LEXICAL SETS

What can we call this lexical set? Texas Austin Silicon Valley India China Australia Canada the US the UK Poland

PLACES Texas Austin Silicon Valley India China Australia Canada the US the UK Poland

PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS INTERESTED IN “WORDS” The Global Language Monitor A group of US wordsmiths lexicographers Paul JJ Payack, the president and chief word analyst of the Global Language Monitor

WORDS (PARTICULARLY THE MILLIONTH ENGLISH) tally of English words millionth word should be formally crowned the millionth word contenders to be the millionth word neologism

NEOLOGISMS coddies chengguan slumdog fundoo jai ho! noob Web 2.0, a term for the next generation of internet applications,

ANNOUNCEMENT & REACTION declared admits an estimate a collective sigh of disappointment declare the idea preposterous

'Web 2.0' declared millionth word in English language neologism created every 98 minutes says language monitor which admits tally of english words an estimate it could have been coddies chengguan slumdog or even fundoo jai ho would have been fun even noob wouldn t have been that bad but when a group of us wordsmiths in texas claimed today that the millionth word in the english language was web 2 0 there must have been a collective sigh of disappointment among those lexicographers who hadn t already declared the idea preposterous

'Web 2.0' declared millionth word in English language Neologism created every 98 minutes, says language monitor – which admits tally of English words an estimate. It could have been "coddies", "chengguan", "slumdog" or even "fundoo". "Jai Ho!" would have been fun. Even "noob" wouldn't have been that bad. But when a group of US wordsmiths in Texas claimed today that the millionth word in the English language was Web 2.0, there must have been a collective sigh of disappointment among those lexicographers who hadn't already declared the idea preposterous.

the global language monitor glm based in austin calculated that a neologism is created on average every 98 minutes and that web 2 0 a term for the next generation of internet applications should be formally crowned the millionth wordglobal language monitor paul jj payack the president and chief word analyst of the global language monitor said that the contenders to be the millionth word had come from silicon valley india china and poland as well as australia canada the us and the uk english has become a universal means of communication never before have so many people been able to communicate so easily with so many others he said

The Global Language Monitor (GLM), based in Austin, calculated that a neologism is created on average every 98 minutes and that "Web 2.0", a term for the next generation of internet applications, should be formally crowned the millionth word.Global Language Monitor Paul JJ Payack, the president and chief word analyst of the Global Language Monitor, said that the contenders to be the millionth word had come from Silicon Valley, India, China, and Poland, as well as Australia, Canada, the US and the UK. "English has become a universal means of communication. Never before have so many people been able to communicate so easily with so many others," he said.

COLLOCATION

'Web 2.0' declared millionth word in English language Neologism created every 98 minutes, says language monitor – which admits tally of English words an estimate. It could have been "coddies", "chengguan", "slumdog" or even "fundoo". "Jai Ho!" would have been fun. Even "noob" wouldn't have been that bad. But when a group of US wordsmiths in Texas claimed today that the millionth word in the English language was Web 2.0, there must have been a collective sigh of disappointment among those lexicographers who hadn't already declared the idea preposterous.

The Global Language Monitor (GLM), based in Austin, calculated that a neologism is created on average every 98 minutes and that "Web 2.0", a term for the next generation of internet applications, should be formally crowned the millionth word.Global Language Monitor Paul JJ Payack, the president and chief word analyst of the Global Language Monitor, said that the contenders to be the millionth word had come from Silicon Valley, India, China, and Poland, as well as Australia, Canada, the US and the UK. "English has become a universal means of communication. Never before have so many people been able to communicate so easily with so many others," he said.

COLLOCATION a group of US wordsmiths in Texas a collective sigh of disappointment declared the idea preposterous. the next generation of internet applications, be formally crowned a universal means of communication. be able to communicate so easily

'Web 2.0' declared millionth word in English language Neologism created every 98 minutes, says language monitor – which admits tally of English words an estimate. It could have been "coddies", "chengguan", "slumdog" or even "fundoo". "Jai Ho!" would have been fun. Even "noob" wouldn't have been that bad. But when a ________ of US wordsmiths in Texas claimed today that the millionth word in the ________ language was Web 2.0, there must have been a collective ________ of disappointment among those lexicographers who hadn't already declared the ________ preposterous.

The Global Language Monitor (GLM), based in Austin, calculated that a neologism is created ________ average every 98 minutes and that "Web 2.0", a term for the ________ generation of internet ________, should be ________ crowned the millionth word.Global Language Monitor Paul JJ Payack, the president and chief word analyst of the Global Language Monitor, said that the contenders to be the millionth word had come ________ Silicon Valley, India, China, and Poland, as well as Australia, Canada, the US and the UK. "English has become a universal ________ of communication. Never before have so many people been able to communicate so ________ with so many others," he said.

COLLOCATION & REPORTING VERBS