1) 'meat' referring not to any item of food but to flesh of animals only a) syntactic change b) semantic narrowing c) semantic broadening d) informalisation e) phonological change f) pejoration 2) The use of 'f' to denote the sound 's' in 17th Century texts a) semantic narrowing b) linguistic reclamation c) graphological d) phonological change e) pejoration f) amelioration 3) 'We was all just sat there laughing' a) semantic broadening b) informalisation c) phonological change d) pejoration e) linguistic reclamation f) graphological 4) 'I brung it into school yesterday' a) syntactic change b) semantic narrowing c) semantic broadening d) informalisation e) phonological f) pejoration 5) Pronunciation of 'g' in 'mirage' as 'dg' rather than 'z' like in 'leisure' a) amelioration b) linguistic reclamation c) syntactic d) semantic narrowing e) phonological f) semantic broadening 6) 'The land thou knowest not' becoming 'You do not know the land' is an example of... a) informalisation b) phonological change c) pejoration d) amelioration e) graphological change f) syntactic change 7) The use of the word 'nigger' by black people is an example of linguistic _____ a) semantic narrowing b) semantic broadening c) informalisation d) reclamation e) phonological change f) pejoration 8) Change in meaning of 'nice' from 'ignorant' to 'pleasant' a) amelioration b) graphological change c) reclamation d) syntactic change e) semantic narrowing f) semantic broadening 9) Change in meaning of 'awful' from 'awe-inspiring' to 'terrible' a) informalisation b) phonological change c) pejoration d) amelioration e) graphological change f) reclamation 10) The use of 'hoover' to refer to any type of vacuum cleaner. a) syntactic change b) semantic narrowing c) semantic broadening d) pejoration e) amelioration f) graphological change 11) The use of numbers or individual letters to replace words a) reclamation b) graphological c) amelioration d) pejoration e) phonological change f) informalisation

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