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Diachronic Change: Fashion in language, Lexical changes, Grammatical changes, Phonological changes, Semantic changes; Reasons for Language Change: Myths, Laziness, Emphasis and clarity, Politeness, Misunderstanding, Prestige, Structural reasons, Analogy, Group identity; Word Origins; Origins of English; English today and yesterday, English vocabulary and linguistic purism; American and British English: Reasons for variation: Lexical, phonological, orthographic, and syntactic variation; Origins of Language: Proto-languages and language families, Comparative reconstruction; Birth of a Language: Pidgins, Creoles, Mixed languages; Synchronic Changes: Language varieties |