I say, heartless enterprise. the romance comedy so far this summer. It's witty, is excruciating (not to mind groan sweet and very geeky and, best of all; it inducingly chaste), the story takes a doesn't ask to be taken seriously. There while to get going and then slots into a is no real purpose to any of the clunky format in such a thrall to how uncountable homages rendered other AWESOME it is that it forgets that than that they are, or were once, you're supposed to root for characters. something teenagers got a kick out of. That's not to say the film is entirely If I was being bitchy I'd say that (the empty. Wright imbues his characters
gymansium, biathlon, pentathlon, decathlon, olympic, diagnoses, prognoses, analyses, technology, epic, drama, poem, tragedy, comedy, theatre, epilogue, prologue, methaphor CELTIC- welsh, walloon, wallnut, bannock, bin, brock, badger, caln, whiskey, lock, slogan, arthur, donald and mac. SCANDIAVIAN- take, taken, grasp, seire, catch, call, cast, hit, trive, want, raise, indow, husband, fellow, gate, sky, ski, skirt, skin, plought, ill, ugly, law, thrall, beck, tharp, breed, orientering and sorgasbord FRENCH- law, culture, fashion, religion, odour, slent, king, queen, lord, lady, duke, dutchess, baron, count, countess, page, marquise, prima, leisure, cards, chess, conversation, sport, veal, beef, mutton, venison, brown, parta, ham, gammon, question, mount, vapour, valentine, lediac, lone SPAIN- armada, comrade, renegade, flotilla, don, negro, cockroach, embargo, mosquito,
phonetic, gymnasium, biathlon, pentathlon, decathlon, olympic, diagnosis, prognosis, analysis, technology, epic, drama, poem, tragedy, comedy, theatre, epilogue, prologue, metaphor Celtic borrowings welsh, walloon, walnut, bannock, bin, brock, badger, caln, whiskey, lock, slogan, arthur, donald and mac. Scandinavian borrowings take, taken, grasp, catch, call, cast, hit, thrive, want, raise, endow, husband, fellow, gate, sky, ski, skirt, skin, plough, ill, ugly, law, thrall, beck, tharp, breed, and sorgasbord French borrowings law, culture, fashion, religion, odour, slent, king, queen, lord, lady, duke, duchess, baron, count, countess, page, marquis, prima, leisure, cards, chess, conversation, sport, veal, beef, mutton, venison, brown, parta, ham, gammon, question, mount, vapor, valentine, lone Spanish borrowings armada, comrade, renegade, flotilla, don, negro, cockroach, embargo, mosquito, vanilla, cargo, sombrero, siesta, anchovy, bonito, castanet, bonanza,
7. Scandinavian borrowings 1000 (2000) borrowings. 3 Closed class words o They, them, their, fro Everyday words: o Take, call, cast, hit, thrive, want, raise, window, husband, fellow, gate, sky, skin, skill, ill, odd, ugly, Law terms: o Law, thrall Place names o –by – Derby, Whitby. –beck – Troutbeck (trout brook). –thorp(e), Icelandic: o auk, eider, geyser, saga. Norse: o anger, balderdash, bing, bleak, blether, blink, bloom, blunder, blur, call, clamber, creek, crook, die, dirt, dowdy, doze, dregs, egg, fellow, flat, flaunt, flaw, fleck, flimsy, gasp, gaunt,