respond - definition and synonyms. What are red words? 90% of the time, speakers of English use just 7,500 words in speech and writing. These words appear in red, and are graded with stars. One-star words are frequent, two-star words are more frequent, and three-star words are the most frequent.
Subject Linguistics Â» Sociolinguistics. Two fundamental facts of language are (a) that it is always changing, in all areas of structure (phonology, grammar, discourse style, semantics, and vocabulary) and (b) that it changes in different ways at diverse places and times.
The factors relating to social change are many, and there is a general agreement among different writers that these include the geographical, the biological, the cultural and the technological factors while the psychological element in each cannot be left out of consideration.