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The Impact of the Industrial Revolution

 

The Linguistic Consequences

 
  • The new terminology of technological and scientific advance quickly developed with hundreds of thousands of new words

 
  • The bulk of Modern English vocabulary lies in its scientific and technological nomenclature

 
  • Most of this arrived during and after the Industrial Revolution

 
  • It is impossible to know just how much specialized vocabulary there is in Modern English - the dictionaries capture only a small part of it

 Borrowing 

Term

Source

Subject

First recorded usage

bacillus

Latin

biology

1883

caffeine

French

chemistry

1830

calcar

Latin

botany

1832

cloaca

Latin

physiology

1834

corolla

Latin

botany

1753

femur

Latin

anatomy

1799

fibula

Latin

anatomy

1746

flagellum

Latin

zoology

1852

hibiscus

Greek

botany

1706

hydra

Latin

zoology

1798

influenza

Italian

medicine

1743

lamina

Latin

geology

1794

latex

Latin

botany

1835

loess

German

geology

1833

moraine

French

geology

1789

nickel

German

mineralogy

1755

ovum

Latin

zoology

1706

pipette

French

chemistry

1839

quartz

German

mineralogy

1756

radula

Latin

zoology

1877

rhizome

Greek

botany

1845

thallus

Greek

botany

1829

tibia

Latin

anatomy

1726

 

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THE IMPACT OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

  The First Industrial Revolution

  The Second Industrial Revolution

  Linguistic Consequences

  Borrowing 

  French Loans

  Words from Other Parts of the World

  Affixation

  Compounding 

  Abbreviation

  Word-class Conversion

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