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British Culture An Introduction
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How many countries make up the United Kingdom?
Answer: Four England Scotland Wales Northern Ireland
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What is the current currency of The United Kingdom?
The Pound Although the UK joined the EU in 1973, thus far the country has not switch their currency to the Euro. This has helped keep the UK financially strong, $1= € .69 $1= £.62 €1 = £.90 So for example, if you liked a desk that was £200, you would be paying $321. Updated July 2011
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Who is the current Monarch?
Queen Elizabeth II—not to be confused with the Virgin Queen Elizabeth of the Elizabethan/Shakespearean age. Next in line to the throne? Prince Charles Then? Prince William
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Where does the monarch OFFICIALLY reside?
Buckingham Palace
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What famous river flows through London?
The Thames (pronounced “Tims”
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What Centuries did William Shakespeare Live?
16th and 17th; baptized in 1564, died in 1616. Apprx. 38 plays 154 sonnets Other prominent works
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How many times did King Henry VIII get married
How many times did King Henry VIII get married? What is the name of at least one of his wives? Six times His wives include (in this order)… Catherine of Aragon (Spanish Princess) Divorced Anne Boleyn (mother of Elizabeth I) Executed Jane Seymore Died Anne of Cleves Kathryn Howard Katherine Parr Widowed
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What are the two largest political parties in the UK?
Conservative Labour
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Where are the crown jewels kept?
The Tower of London Most haunted It was a prison in the past
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Where were the Beatles from?
Liverpool
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Who is Nessie and where does she reside?
Loch Ness Monster; Loch Ness (lake in Scotland)
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What is a Double Decker? A two story bus
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St. George is the patron saint of England—what is he famous for killing?
A dragon
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What is the most popular food in Britain?
Fish and chips
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Most famous timepiece? Big Ben
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UK US UK US UK US Clothing Items School Terms Food
Knickers Under-wear/ panties Rubber eraser Biscuit Cookie Jumper Sweater Public School Private School Chips FRIES Vest Under-shirt State School Public School Jelly Jello Wellies galoshes Zebra Crossing crosswalk Runner Beans Green beans Trainers Sneakers Marks grades Scone Biscuit
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Etymology Open the dictionary to a random page.
Look at the first word on the page and make note of the etymology Words noted as AS or OE are native; the rest are borrowed Make note of the etymologies of 15 words at the TOP of 15 separate pages Main Entry: et·y·mol·o·gy Pronunciation: \-jē\ Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural et·y·mol·o·gies Etymology: Middle English ethimologie, from Anglo-French, from Latin etymologia, from Greek, from etymon + -logia -logy Date: 14th century 1 : the history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmissionfrom one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language 2 : a branch of linguistics concerned with etymologies
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What is the ratio? 13 Borrowed 2 Native Outlandish (OE) Woodruff (OE)
Irrevocable (Latin) Jangle (O French) Motion (Latin) Pointillism (French) Pulse (Latin) Serviette (O French) Suit (Latin) Vamplate (Anglo-Norman French) Wheedle (German) Zygoma (Greek) Adequate (Latin) Aperture (Latin) Close (Latin) Outlandish (OE) Woodruff (OE)
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What does this imply about the ENGLISH language?
2:13 (13%) Percentage Latin/Greek Percentage Other 8/13 = 62% 5/13 = 13% What does this imply about the ENGLISH language?
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Our Language English is incredibly diverse!
English dictionaries: 600,000 words—closest rival (German): 185,000 words Knowing where language originates from allows us to connect and understand how and why we communicate the way we do.
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Pәter Sanskrit Piter Classical Greek Pater Latin Gothic Fadar Old Irish Athir French Pere Spanish Padre Portuguese Pai English Father German Vater
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Proto Indo European Indo-Iranian Greek Albanian Latin Balto-Slavic
Celtic Germanic Baltic Slavic Welsh Bretan Gælic Sanskrit Iranian Romanian French Spanish Portuguese Italian Russian Ukrainian Czech Slovak Serb-Croatian Latvian Lithuanian Hindi Bengali Persian Kurdish
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Germanic North Germanic East Germanic West Germanic Low High Old Norse
Gothic West Norse East Norse Old High German Swedish Danish Old English Old Frisian Old Low German Icelandic Norwegian Old Low Franconian Old Saxon West Saxon Anglian Kentish Middle English Modern English
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Old English Old English has different LETTERS. "Thorn" (Þ or þ)
Cloth (cláþ) Thin The letter "the" (ð) Clothes Then Old English does not require a specific word order, the way Middle and Modern English do. Instead, OE uses declensions (little endings stuck on the end of nouns)
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Middle English Spelling has not yet been formalized in a systematic way, and many Latinate terms have entered English through intermediary French influences under the Norman conquerors in 1066.
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Early Modern English Shakespeare’s day thou/you, thy/your,
thine/yours, Shakespeare's alphabet in the early modern is practically identical to ours Doesn't yet have identical punctuation conventions to ours. For instance, the exclamation mark still wasn't invented in 1590.
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