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Register The chart below shows the full range of registers available to us. In the centre is the common register - the large common pool of language that we draw on for our conventional speech and writing. This is basically Anglo-Saxon in origin with some Latinate words. More specialist registers will draw on different areas of the English vocabulary - the scientific register, for instance, will contain a larger number of Latinate words. We learn to use registers as we learn to talk - by listening and imitating what we hear around us. For example, we learn to use the phrase "Good Bye" when taking leave of some people, while "See-you" or a similar phrase would be more suitable with other people. When we learn to use register what we are doing is learning to adapt the way we speak to: * the person we are addressing * the situation (or context) we find...

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