Words in English Language: A Need for Different Approach of Teaching Vocabulary

English is a masculine language. One of the reasons of masculinity is that it has more than 10 lakh (1million) words and this richness is so big that almost all the sentences in English can be convertedinto one word substitution. The reason of such a plenty of words is that English words are in plentyof loan words. Words in English language have come from different languages. English is logicallanguage too, except its spelling rules. They vary because the grammatical rules of spelling havetaken from the concerned language from which the words came. In this article I would discuss thederivational details and the logical sequences of words, how they were made and took the modernshape and meaning. Words in any language not only change their shape (spelling) but also themeaning. The 13th century English words ‘Gay’ meant joyous, lighthearted (we get the word ‘gay’ inthe Oxymoron used by Wilfred Owens in his poem The Send Off ‘Down the close, darkening lanesthey sang their way/ To the siding-shed And lined the train with faces grimly gay”). Flower and flourhave come from same French origin, which is the etymological root is same fleur. The words lobsterand locust have come from Latin lucusta which turned into the French langouste and Old Englishlopustre. The lobster is the locust of the sea. Inch and Ounce have both come from Latin uncialmeaning a twelfth part, but are used for different measurements. If one can understand theetymology and philological structure of the words, it will be easier for him or her to learn more wordswithout much effort.