Not everyone in Nevada agrees there's one true pronunciation. The Oxford English Dictionary records over 2,000 words newly created by the bard, either by ‘changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes and devising words wholly original’. The Subject Changes in Each Voice . Morphological and syntactic changes in English are closely linked, and involve changes in nouns, possessives and the way out language shows grammatical relaionships entirely. Synthetic vs. analytical languages. Go back ten years and you would have found endless hand-wringing articles about how our use of the internet, MSN messenger and texting was ruining everyone’s vocabulary and we would soon be able to speak in nothing but grunts and emojis. My personal favourite type of mispronunciation, folk etymology, occurs when a word is borrowed from another language, but the borrowers of the word don’t understand much about the foreign tongue – so they come up with a new word that sounds like the foreign word, and makes some sort of sense in terms of meaning. The formation of the past tense and past participle of strong verbs showed more variation in early modern English than today. The “kinetic heat return system” converts the energy you generate into heat that gets reflected back onto your body.

Most contemporary linguistic commentators accept that change in language, like change in society, is inevitable. The company contracts with institutions, including the University of Image credits: banner; Johnson; Bush; eagle; dormouse; modem; India; Shakespeare; Gulliver. Meanwhile, the development of automatic translation software, such as Google Translate, will come to replace English as the preferred means of communication employed in the boardrooms of international corporations and government agencies. ‘awful’ – originally 'worthy of awe' now 'exceedingly bad', Words take on new meanings when begin to be used metaphorically, E.g. Capital letters are used to show anger, misspellings convey humour and establish group identity, and smiley-faces or emoticons express a range of reactions. In the past, George W. Bush and Michelle Obama have both been accused of mangling the pronunciation; in 2016, Donald Trump incorrectly told Nevada residents they were pronouncing the name of their own state wrong. Hinglish is distinctively Indian-sounding in that it usually prefers the present continuous tense to the simple present (‘On Thursdays I am working’, rather than ‘I work on Thursdays’) and tends to dispense with articles like ‘the’ and ‘a’.

What’s more, Hinglish has altered a number of English words to make its own distinctive vocabulary, including ‘badmash’ for a hooligan, ‘airdash’ meaning to go somewhere in a hurry, and ‘pre-pone’, the opposite of postpone.