Exercise 10

Be sure to pronounce the words for your instructor.

Exercise 11

crisis - Greek

kindergarten - German

haberdasher - from Anglo-French (1066 A.D.) to Middle English

mother - Sanskrit (ME ® OS ® OHG ® L ® GK ® Sk)

potato - Spanish

stalemate - eastern English

dude - origin unknown

February - Latin (ME ® OE ® L)

zombie Niger - Congo (in East Africa)

boycott - Charles C. Boycott - ostracized for refusing to reduce rents

Exercise 12

A)

Answers may vary.

B)

1. Lying
2. Rove, reeved
3. Criteria
4. Strove, strived
5. Referenda, referendums
6. Leapt, leaped
7. Learnt, learned
8. Swept
9. Consortia, consortiums
10. Octopi, octopuses