I. INTERNATIONAL WORDS.
Together with the international adjective international, fifty nouns of
general utility have been provisionally recognized by Basic English as
International -- widely understood without instruction:
International Nouns (50):
alcohol, aluminum, automobile, bank, bar, beef, beer, calendar,
check, chemist, chocolate, chorus, cigarette, club, coffee, colony, dance,
engineer, gas, hotel, influenza, lava, madam, nickel, opera, orchestra,
paraffin, park, passport, patent, phonograph, piano, police, post, program,
propaganda, radio, restaurant, sir, sport, taxi, tea, telegram, telephone,
terrace, theater, tobacco, university, whisky, zinc.
Names of Sciences (12):
Algebra, Arithmetic, Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Geology,
Geometry, Mathematics, Physics, Physiology, Psychology, Zoology.
International Names used in Titles,
Organizations, Diplomacy, etc. (12)
College, Dominion, Embassy, Empire, Imperial, King, Museum,
President, Prince, Princess, Queen, Royal.
There are 50 nouns of less general utility for use in appropriate
contexts. These have been submitted for review by international committees to
see if they are truly international words:
General Utility (50)
ammonia, asbestos, autobus, ballet, cafe, catarrh, champagne,
chauffeur, circus, citron, cocktail, cognac, dynamite, encyclopedia, glycerin,
hyena, hygiene, hysteria, inferno, jazz, liqueur, macaroni, malaria, mania,
nicotine, olive, omelet, opium, paradise, penguin, platinum, potash, pajamas,
pyramid, quinine, radium, referendum, rheumatism, rum, salad, sardine, tapioca,
toast, torpedo, vanilla, violin, visa, vodka, volt, zebra.
Onomatopoeic
Bang - noise made by burst
Hiss - noise of a snake
Meow - sound of a cat
Purr - sound of a happy cat
Quack - sound of a water fowl.
The achievements of science are usefully summarized with respect
to:
Science notation and measurement:
- The system of numbers.
- The metric system.
- The measurement of latitude and longitude.
- Mathematical symbols.
- Money systems.
- Chemical formula.
- Time and the calendar.
- Proper names.
- Notation in music.
Time and Numbers (50)
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September,
October, November, December.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, twenty, twenty-one, thirty,
forty, fifty, hundred, thousand, million,
once, twice, half, quarter, third, fourth, fifth.
New Century : International
nouns
computer
, helicopter , internet , nuclear , television , . . .
