Number 78, exercise 8.0:06
Listen to the text words we use and try to read it in the same manner words we use.0:10
As you know, one of the very good ways to get new words is to borrow them from other people.0:20
English is full of words borrowed from other languages.0:28
The possibilities for borrowing words are endless.0:33
People can also make new words by using the names of people or places or the characters in stories.0:37
The word atlas has that name because long ago on a famous collection of maps, there was a picture of the Greek God Atlas holding up the world.0:45
People can make words by cutting big ones down into small ones.0:56
When you say a mechanical person is a robot, you are using a cut down form of robotnik, which means worker in several Slavic languages.1:01
Nowadays people often say dock instead of doctor, phone instead of telephone, fridge instead of refrigerator.1:11
You cut down long word combinations or sentences and make them into short words by joining together the first letters of each word.1:21
UNESCO comes from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and P stands for Member of Parliament, USA for the United States of America.1:29
One of the most complete dictionaries of the English language is Webster's third New International Dictionary.1:43
It has more than 700,000 words.1:50
No person knows all of them, but most grownups are able to understand about 35,000 words.1:55
In fact, people use only about one tenth of the words they understand.2:02
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