59. _In changing the word hoe to hoeing, why retain the e?_ To preserve its signification.

60. _What is the origin of the suffix less?_ Anglo-Saxon.

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61. _What is the origin of the word English?_ It is derived from the word Angles.

1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading — Part 13

62. _Who were the Angles?_ They were a tribe of people who came from the land of the Low Germans and settled in Britain in the fifth century.

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63. _What does the word England mean?_ "The land of the Angles."

64. _Why is our language sometimes called the "Teutonic language"?_ Because it is derived from the ancient Germans, who were called Teutons.

65. _What kind of words end in ize?_ Verbs derived from the Greek.

66. _What kind of words end in ise?_ Most words derived from the French.

67. _Why is the English called a Composite Language?_ Because it is derived from so many different sources.

68. _Does adding a single consonant to a word ever make an additional syllable?_ It does.

69. _Give examples._ Grade, grad-ed; confide, con-fi-ded.

70. _Can a word be compound and derivative at the same time?_ It can; as, ball-player.

71. _How distinguish between an affix and a part of a compound word?_ If all the parts retain their literal signification they form a compound; if not, the part which loses its signification becomes an affix in a derivative.

72. _Is the word outside compound or derivative?_ It is compound.

73. _Is the word outrun compound or derivative?_ It is derivative.

74. _What is Derivation?_ That branch of etymology which treats of the sources of the words of a language.

76. _What are they?_ Paronymous and Historical.

77. _What is Paronymous derivation?_ That part of etymology which treats of present sources of English words.

78. _Give examples of Paronymous derivation._ Kingdom, from king; Manly, from man, etc.

79. _What is Historical derivation?_ That part of etymology which treats of the foreign sources of the English language.

80. _Give examples of Historical derivation._ Book, from boc; Moon, from mona, etc.

81. _When use a, and when an, in a sentence?_ Use a before all words beginning with a consonant sound, and use an before words beginning with a vowel sound, _h_ mute, or _h_ initial, if the accent is on any other syllable than the first.

82. _Why do words in the English language become obsolete?_ Because it is a living language.