Author Question: The food names squash, maize, hominy, avocado, and tapioca all have Native American origins. This is ... (Read 65 times)

nramada · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

The food names squash, maize, hominy, avocado, and tapioca all have Native American origins. This is because

a. the early settlers preferred these names to the names these crops had in England.
b. English colonists named them for locations in the New World that had Native American names.
c. Indians of the Americas were the first peoples to domesticate these foods.
d. All of these are reasons for these names of Native American origin.

Question 2

Which of these is the term for any sequence of phonemes that carries meaning?

a. Dialect
b. Lexicon
c. Phoneme
d. Morpheme