Конкурсная работа (Английский язык) Откуда произошли английские слова?

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  Both words were preserved, but their styles are different.
  

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  Sometimes words had the same meaning but different origin.
  

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  There are calques on the French phrases:
  

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   New English (since 1500)
   

The vocabulary was growing very rapidly and the actual amount of words started being impossible to estimate.

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   Internal Means
   

In order to create new words people used affixes. During that period they became almost as popular as they had been during the Old period.

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   Suffixes –er, - ing, -man became really popular for making up nouns:
   

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  To denote a doer (from a verb): discoverer, driver, and owner.
  
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  To denote a doer (from a noun): chairman, coachman, airman.
  
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  To denote an action (from a verb): farming, firing, spelling.
  
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  Suffix -ing was also used to form various adjectives: amazing, corresponding, shining.
  

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   British also distinguished some suffixes from French borrowings of the Middle period.
   

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   New words also appeared by means of word composition.
   

They are: dressmaker, hairdresser, sightseer, blackboard, man-of-war, jack-in-office, happy-go-lucky, matter-of-fact.

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   Another means of word building was reducing: gent- gentleman, cab-cabriolet, wig-periwig
   

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   There also existed a way of word building without any affixes:
   

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  In this case a word could be for example a noun and a verb at a time: a bomb – to bomb, calm - to calm.
  
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  Some nouns which were derived from names:
  

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   External Means
   

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   The Early New English
   

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  Latin borrowings