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Information and Ideas practice question
A linguist argues that a village's dialect word for stream comes from Norse rather than from Old English.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the claim?
- A. The word matches the Norse form exactly and appears only in villages that the sagas record as Norse settlements, never in the Old English villages a few miles away.Correct
- B. Norse settlers arrived in the region in the ninth century.
- C. The village has a stream.
- D. Many English words come from Norse.
Answer: A. The word matches the Norse form exactly and appears only in villages that the sagas record as Norse settlements, never in the Old English villages a few miles away.
The form, and where it is found.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Norse settlers arrived in the region in the ninth century.
- Settlement does not show this word's origin.
- C. The village has a stream.
- Irrelevant.
- D. Many English words come from Norse.
- A general fact about English.
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