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Every profession or trade, every art and every since has its technical vocabulary, the function of which is party to designate things or processes which have no names in ordinary English and party to secure greater exactness in nomenclature. Such special dialects or jargons are necessary in technical discussion of any kind. Being universally understood by the devotees of the particular since or art, they have the precision of a mathematical formula. Besides, they save time, for it is much more economical to name a process than to describe it. Thousands of these technical terms are very property included in every large dictionary, yet, as a whole, they are rather on the outskirts of the English language than actually within its borders.
Different occupations, however, differ widely in the character of their special vocabularies. In trades and handicrafts and other vocations like farming and fishing that have occupied great numbers of men from remote times, the technical vocabulary is very old. An average man now uses these in his own vocabulary. The special dialects of law, medicine, divinity and philosophy have become familiar to cultivated persons.

It is true that


A) various professions and occupations often interchange words

B) there is always a non-technical word that may be substituted for the technical word

C) the average man often uses in his own vocabulary what was once technical language not meant for him

D) everyone is interested in scientific findings

Correct Answer:
C) the average man often uses in his own vocabulary what was once technical language not meant for him


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