The neutral layer, universal, unrestricted in its use, the most stable.

3. The colloquial layer falls into the following groups:

1) common colloquial vocabulary

2) special colloquial vocabulary (unstable, limited to a definite language community or confined to a special locality):

• slang

• jargonisms

• professional words

• dialectal Words

• vulgar Words

• colloquial coinages

The common literary, neutral and common colloquial words are grouped under the term standard English vocabulary. Other groups in the literary layer are regarded as special literary -vocabulary and those in the colloquial layer are regarded as special colloquial (non-literary) vocabulary.

This division of the English Vocabulary can not be considered as an accurate scientific classification. Accurate objective criteria for this division are not formulated yet. The terms are not always properly defined. Consequently, the boundaries between different groups are not clearly marked.

Thus, the lower range of literary words approaches the neutral layer and has an obvious tendency to pass into that layer. The upper range of the colloquial layer can easily pass into the neutral layer. The lines of demarcation between the common colloquial and neutral vocabulary, on the one hand, and between the common literary and neutral vocabulary, on the other, are blurred. The same can be said about the stylistic groups within the special literary and special colloquial vocabulary, particularly the latter, e.g.: Professionalisms -jargons; Slang-vulgarisms

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