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The main usage labels found in terminology databases are grouped into five categories:

  • Sociolinguistic labels (the level of language of the term may be customary, scientific or jargon; the term may be standardized or officially approved).
  • Geographic labels (the term may be specific to a particular country or region).
  • Temporal labels (the term may be obsolete, archaic, or a neologism).
  • Origin labels (the term may be preferred by a given company or in a certain subject field for reasons of originality in commercial competition).
  • Frequency labels (the term may be used frequently, less frequently, or rarely).

Exercise

It is important that you specify, for some parts of the world, the region in which a specific term is used, as linguistic and cultural differences within a common language sometimes call for different designations.

Question 1

Which of the following terms are used in Great Britain?


Question 2

Which of the following terms are used in North America?


Question 3

Which of the following terms are used in Canada?

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