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History Quiz: Would You Be Able To Speak In National English?
If someone described a meal as high-deedy, what would they mean?
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It was expensive
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It was magnificent
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It was nutritious
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It was tasty
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Anything beginning with mag was not Anglo-Saxon and to be replaced by high or great: thus, to magnify is to greaten.
If someone told you they were off to the lorehouse, they would be...
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Attending a court hearing
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Going to the police station
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On their way to school
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Visiting a museum
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Lore means learning; Barnes also listed loremaster (teacher), wortlore (botany) and fable-lore (mythology), among others.
If your neighbour told you she and her husband were offsundering, you know they are...
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Expecting a baby
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Moving house
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Separating
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Wondering what colour to paint the front door
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Barnes loved phrasal verbs, both those where the preposition and verb were separate (rise up in place of revolt; take away instead of subtract; run up instead of incur) and where they were bonded (upquicken rather than stimulate; outword rather than propose; outleave rather than omit.
Which of these items is a gleeman most likely to be seen holding?
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A guitar
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A paintbrush
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A spanner
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An axe
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Glee is the old word for music. Barnes had no truck with gender, evidently; a redesman was a logician, a foeman was an enemy and menly was human.
Would you describe a members’ only club as...
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Outshutsome
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Overfarsome
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Overthwartsome
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Speaksome
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This is an extension of Barnes’ liking for the preposition and verb model: adding some turned it into an adjective, as is fornaysome (negative), blithesome (joyful) and cheatsome (false).
Which of these items is most likely to be sold in a shop for children?
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A push-wainling
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A plunger
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A moon-trendle
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A sunprint
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This is Barnes’ word for perambulator: a wainling is a little wain (little wagon), as in folkwain (omnibus) and haywain.
What powers the light when you flick the switch?
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Lorecraft
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Sundriness
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Matter-quickness
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Welkin-fire
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Electricity was given two possible names: matter-quickness and fireghost, while chemistry was matterlore.
In Downton Abbey, Carson was the Earl of Grantham’s...
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Cellarthane
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Deemer
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Steadman
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Clothmonger
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A thane, in Anglo-Saxon England, fell between a freeman and a noble, as the butler falls between the servants and the employers, given a great deal of authority and trust – and responsibility for wine.
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