English, 05.05.2020 02:23 kevonmajor

Which answer choice describes two CENTRAL ideas of the article?

A. Many nonsense words are built upon dactylic stress patterns: others are formed by the repetition
of a syllable.
B. Many words for "nonsense originated in 1800s English theater or from the Turkish language: these
Anglicized terms were used by aristocrats.
C. British people are unusually polite: so, they developed nonsense words to reduce the sting of
criticisms.
D. British people had difficulty saying foreign words with dactylic patterns: so, they turned them into
nonsense slang.

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