Check Yourself Test 2 What strata of the word-stock belong to the standard English vocabulary? What do we include in the literary vocabulary? Characterize each of the groups. How can archaisms be subdivided? What are the stages of a word’s becoming archaic? How do barbarisms differ from foreignisms? What are nonce-words? Is slang widespread or is it the means of communication of the few? How does slang differ from jargonisms? What is the difference between jargonisms and professional words? What was the difference in the use of vulgarisms in Shakespearian times and the Enlightenment? Are they often used nowadays?
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