8. No formal
guidance about spelling and pronunciation of English before the 19th
century. False, that happens in the 18th.
9. RP speakers today
have a more relaxed way of pronouncing certain vowels. True
10. RP speakers
today normally use the glottal stop in the middle of the words butter and later. False
People to Remember
2. Bob Barletrop - Grammarian and linguist
3. Jonathan Swift -
He proposed an Academy to regulate English
4. George Bernard
Shaw - Playwright and spelling reformer
5. J.C. Wells - An expert on accents of English
6. Dr.
Robert Burchfield - Editor of the OED
7. James
Boswell - Johnson’s biographer
8. Henry Machyn - He kept a diary.
9. Samuel Johnson - Author of a dictionary
10. Pat Butler - BBC announcer