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brutforce

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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. Native Americans were the first peoples to domesticate these foods.
  d. Native Americans created these crops by interbreeding American crops with English crops.

Question 2

Which of these is the term for any sequence of phonemes that carries meaning?
 
  a. Dialect
  b. Lexicon
  c. Phoneme
  d. Morpheme



billybob123

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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
c

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
d



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