A No-Talk Empire

A. The word "assassin" comes from the Arabic word hashishin from 1122.

B. The English lexicon is a hard number to find. On this source I found that Shakespeare wrote with about 884,647 words (including proper names) , even though there is a doubt whether a word's derivatives count as words or all are categorized as one word. Our famous "David Crystal, in the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, suggests that there must be at least a million words in the language. Tom McArthur, in the Oxford Companion to the English Language, comes up with a similar figure." 

C. I recognize most prefixes and suffixes. Prefixes like mono- and penta- I'm very familiar with because of Chemistry. Some are very common, like non- or dis-. In terms of the suffixes, most were easily recognizable such as -ology or -ography.

D. Neologistic borrowings appear especially in the 18th and 19th centuries because of the British Empire and its expansion into India, South Africa, United States, etc. As the British had never been exposed to certain activities or objects they found no remedy other than adopt these words.

E. As we discussed in class, the empire will always impose a language. This language won't just disappear without putting up a fight (or creating new dialects, neologistic borrowings, etc.) In this case, with language lies power. 

F. I believe the 21st century empire is different from the 18th century one, but through certain means English still imposes itself. A clear example is technology and how it controls most aspects of daily life.  By being in English, one must adhere to these changes and try to understand. This is a modern empire.