Where Do New English Words and Expressions Come From?
The Lexical Growth and Development of English as a Global Language In part 1 of this two-part article post, we began looking into the sources of new words and lexis in the English language. Singers, songs and songwriters, popular movies and television programs, literature and books, computers, industry and technology, idioms, expressions and slang from colloquial speech have all contributed in their own ways to the lexical growth and development of English as a global language. But wait, there’s more. Here are three additional fountains from which lexical input flows into the English language. o Politics A word like “stumping”, meaning to give numerous speeches to smaller, local crowds of people when campaigning for an election is but one example of a politics-related word which has made it into popular usage. Campaign slogans, speeches and political rallies have been the sources of countless new words and lexis in the English language. o The Media and Advertising Another popular sourc
