British and American Correspondences

British English American English

faculty school leaver form holidays pupil headmaster exercise-book college grounds hall of residence a dull pencil full stop obligatory subjects time-table elementary school indian rubber first year, second year, etc. student

department school graduate grade vacation student principal notebook campus dormitory a blunt pencil period mandatory (or required) subjects schedule grade (primary) school eraser freshman, sophomore, junior, senior.

American School Vocabulary

Public school – государственная школа, private / independent school – частная / независимая школа, parochial school – церковноприходская школа, pre-school education – дошкольное обучение, nursery school (daycare center) – ясли, kindergarten – детский сад, elementary school – начальная школа, secondary school – средняя школа, high school – школа III ступени (старшие классы средней школы) состоит из: Junior high and Senior high schools, curriculum – учебный план, программа, Subjects (courses) – предметы.

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 Laurence Urdang, Suffixes and Other Word-Final Elements of English. – Detroit, Michigan, 1982

• Bahuvrihi, “much-riced” – exocentric compounds where a person, animal or thing are metonymically named

after some striking feature they possess (e.g. appearance) where there this feature is expressed by the sum of

the meanings of Ics.

 H. Sweet was the first to use the term in his “New English Grammar” (1891)

 There is also a purely syntactic approach which is called functional (A. Kennedy, R. Woddell, C. Pollock)

 The blind, the dead, the wounded, the accused are partially substantivized, we see no morphological changes,

no new paradigms.

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• Shortened adjectives are very few and complicated by suffixation (comfy – comfortable, mizzy – miserable). Shortened verbs are rare.

 Irradiation and concatenation demonstrate different ways of meaning development

 It is the oldest original meaning of the word.