試題詳解

Which of the following is NOT true about English language?
(A) It was not until the middle of the 1700s that English spelling was finally standardized.
(B) Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755, was a result of the standardization of English spelling.
(C) All of the 100 most frequent words in Contemporary English come from Old English.
(D) The spelling-pronunciation mismatch in English words results from the influence of Greek and Latin.