EA0929_eModE_Inkhorns

Why is the eModE period called an Age of Linguistic Anxiety?

• Because writers feared Latin would die out

• Because scholars wanted to create a new language

• Because of growing concerns over vocabulary gaps and language purity

• Because printing was banned

What was the main source of borrowing during the eModE period?

• Greek

• Different vernaculars

• French

• Latin

What term was used to describe borrowed words that were considered excessive and pretentious?

• Buzzwords

• Inkhorn terms

• Archaic words

• Neologisms

What sort of word is an inkhorn term?

• A borrowed term

• A technical term

• An archaic term

• A common term

What movement was observed in the 16th century related to English vocabulary?

• The Royal Spelling Reform

• The Anglo-Saxon Revival

• The Norman Lexicon Campaign

• The Inkhorn Controversy

How does the inkhorn controversy reflect the linguistic anxiety characteristic the eModE period?

• It shows the rejection of all foreign words in English.

• It highlights fears that invented and borrowed words might corrupt or confuse the language.

• It led to the banning of Latin and Greek in English writing.

• It encouraged the revival of Old English vocabulary in everyday speech.

What resource did authors such as Edmund Spenser use instead of Latinisms?

• Greek words

• French words

• Archaic words

• Modern words

French loans didn't generate as much controversy as Latin ones. Why is this?

• French words were easy to pronounce

• English had already borrowed thousands of French terms

• The Church encouraged the use of French loans

• French loans were only used in poetry

Why did English-like technical words fail to substitute their Latin counterparts?

• The words were difficult to pronounce

• People preferred the Latin terms they were familiar with

• Inventing English-like words was considered a bad scholarly practice

• The invented words were actually Anglo-Norman, so they were considered French

What was the main problem with inkhorn terms?

• They sounded French and they didn't like it

• They didn't know how to pronounce those words

• Authors used them without explaining their meaning

• Chaucer recommended avoiding them