A. The word assassin derives from the Arabic Word hashashin.
B. The English Lexicon is large with over a million words in the dictionary and takes root words from many languages around the world.
C. Recognizable prefixes: pre-, anti-, dis-, multi-, super-, and re-. Suffixes: -able, -ize, -ate, and -ive.
D. Neologistic borrowings entered the English language in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries because it was a time in which technology and cultures had spread from Britain and the United States to other continents. This created mixture of languages, new technological/scientific terminologies, and communication between different cultures.
E. The language will maintain an empire together with unity and tradition. It also identifies who belongs to what empire because of its linguistic characteristics.
F. I think that language helps populations identify to which region or place they belong to even in the twenty-first century. It could unify people but not as strongly as in the past as language has spread around most part of the world.
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