TAILIEUCHUNG - Các biến thể của tiếng anh part 6

INTERNATIONAL VARIETIES OF ENGLISH may be specific to one geographical area. For example, ash and mahogany are both used in Australia to apply to many eucalypts; badger was used in Australia to refer to marsupials, especially the wombat, and mole was sometimes used in the nineteenth century to refer to the platypus; robin is used to refer to a number of different species of bird in North America, Australia and New Zealand; a barber may be a sheep-shearer in Australia; in South Africa a block is a number of farms in a single unit owned by one person or company. | 02 pages 001-136 6 8 02 1 26 pm Pag h 42 42 INTERNATIONAL VARIETIES OF ENGLISH may be specific to one geographical area. For example ash and mahogany are both used in Australia to apply to many eucalypts badger was used in Australia to refer to marsupials especially the wombat and mole was sometimes used in the nineteenth century to refer to the platypus robin is used to refer to a number of different species of bird in North America Australia and New Zealand a barber may be a sheep-shearer in Australia in South Africa a block is a number of farms in a single unit owned by one person or company and an excuse-me is a derogatory term for an educated middle-class person. Bikkies is used in Australia and New Zealand to mean money especially in the phrase big bikkies a lot of money . Changes of style Sometimes it is not so much that the meaning of an existing word changes but just that its style-level changes. In New Zealand the word untold is not at all poetical but an everyday word meaning many frequently with the stress on the first syllable and as in South Africa the word varsity is an ordinary student word for a university not just an upper-class word as in Britain. The USA has seen the coining of a number of words which are intended as jokey words words which have sometimes spread beyond the USA to other varieties of English. Examples are absquatulate bodacious cahoots catawumpus hornswoggle rambunctious splendiferous. Descriptions If all else fails it is always possible to give a description of a new phenomenon and let the description stand as its name. Some examples from various countries are given in Figure . The results Heteronymy The term heteronymy is from Gorlach 1990b and refers to the situation where the same item is referred to by a number of different words. A simple example is provided by what is called a lorry in Britain which is called a truck in Canada the USA Australia and New Zealand. Equally what in Britain is called a .

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