Note On The Topic Before You Read Reading Intercultural Notes Further Information Questions: 5.Why English has the biggest vocabulary in the world?Give at least five reasons. 1)It's an alphabetic language composed of 26 letters,which are easily used to make new words theoretically. 2)It has a history.Especially with its economic development and colonization,Britain spread its English language over the world. 3)After the Second World War,the economic,scientific and technological center shifted to the U.S.,many new terms and words came out in many new fields. 4)It's an open language.It borrows many words from other languages. 5)It has some productive word formations,e.g.prefixes, suffixes,compounds,blended words,abbreviations,..Questions: 5. Why English has the biggest vocabulary in the world? Give at least five reasons. 1)It’s an alphabetic language composed of 26 letters, which are easily used to make new words theoretically. 2)It has a history. Especially with its economic development and colonization, Britain spread its English language over the world. 3)After the Second World War, the economic, scientific and technological center shifted to the U.S., many new terms and words came out in many new fields. 4)It’s an open language. It borrows many words from other languages. 5)It has some productive word formations, e.g. prefixes, suffixes, compounds, blended words, abbreviations, … Note On The Topic Before You Read Reading Intercultural Notes Further Information