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A family tree representation of the spread of the English language around the world (from The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, after Peter Strevens) But North America was not the only “New World”. In 1788, less than twenty years after James Cook’s initial landing, Britain es...
English is a member of the Indo-European family of languages. This broad family includes most of the European languages spoken today. The Indo-European family includes several major branches: Latin and the modern Romance languages (French etc.); the Germanic languages (English, German, Swedish et...
Namesakes: Standalone first name or a nickname for “Harold” and other longer names Famous namesakes include magician Harry Houdini Also after English singer-songwriter Harry Styles Variants: Harild and Hari Henry Origin/Gender: Old English and German boy name Meaning/Description:“House ...
1051 - Edward quarrels with Godwin and banishes the rebellious Godwin family from England. Edward promises the throne to William, Duke of Normandy.1052 - Godwin, Earl of Wessex, returns to England.1053 - Godwin’s son, Harold, becomes principal adviser to the King.1056 - Welsh led by ...
English belongs to the Western group of theGermanic branchof theIndo-European language family. It is most closely related toLow Germandialects and toDutch. English descended from the language spoken in the English Isles by the Germanic tribes, theAngles,Saxons, andJutes, who came to the British...
(1) The manner of one families murder was thus; A Gentleman sent some Irish wretches to murder the family of an Englishman: (1653merc.n2b; Mercurius Politicus) (2) Among the rest of Sylvia’s admirers was one old gentleman who was not much short of his grand climacteric, being turned...
"The bride's family will be sat on the right-hand side of the church." This construction is not often heard outside the UK. In the 1960s, its use would mark a speaker as coming from the north of England but by the turn of the 21st century this form had spread to the south. ...
The conquest of the Celtic population in Britain by speakers of West Germanic dialects (primarily Angles, Saxons, and Jutes) eventually determined many of the essential characteristics of the English language (the Celtic influence on English survives for the most part only in place names—London, ...