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 * English** is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca. Named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to England, it ultimately derives its name from the Anglia (Angeln) peninsula in the Baltic Sea. It is closely related to the Frisian languages, but its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse (a North Germanic language), as well as by Latin and Romance languages, especially French. - [|Wikipeda]

Wiki
globish slang

Slang
Australia Slang England Slang New Zealand Slang South Africa Slang USA Slang

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Games
[|Frame Games]

Headlines
http://www.oyejuanjo.com/2016/03/test-gratuito-ingles-universidad-cambridge.html http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20161028-native-english-speakers-are-the-worlds-worst-communicators http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/27/robert-macfarlane-word-hoard-rewilding-landscape http://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2015/mar/03/why-the-oed-are-right-to-purge-nature-from-the-dictionary http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/11/pronunciation-errors-english-language http://mentalfloss.com/article/61819/42-old-english-insults

Recommended Listening
[|Evolving English - how English became French] - England became even more multi-lingual and pluri-ethnic after the Normans invaded in 1066, taking the places of the slaughtered gentry and replacing the Old English they spoke with Norman French—so much so that it is claimed that French continues to be spoken, disguised within English, to this day.

[|Evolving English - what is Old English?] - With the focus on the longest extant epic poem in Old English, //Beowulf//, Bernard Mees provides some insight into the language it uses and the peoples that used it.

[|Evolving English - runic inscriptions] - Runic inscriptions dated as from the fifth century AD are displayed as the earliest-known exemplars of Old English in an exhibition at the British Library.

[|You, you, and you] - In English, there is pretty much only one way to say 'you', encompassing both singular and plural, used in both formal and familiar circumstances, when addressing older and younger people, as well as both strangers and intimates.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/4776834

Misused English
Misused English words and expressions in EU publications (PDF)

Elsewhere on the Web
[|Engrish] [|Separated by a common language] [|Readers, editors recognize (or recognise?) divide between American & British English] http://blog.inkyfool.com - [|@Inkyfool]

Videos
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Opposites
amateur - professional automatic - manual exhausted - exhilarated explicit - implicit formal - informal handmade - industrial original - copy

Idioms
[|Another string to the bow] The penny dropped [|Pie in the sky] [|Horses for courses] [|Worts and all] [|Moving the goalposts] [|Elephant in the room] [|Push the envelope] [|Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong] [|Riding shotgun] [|In for a penny, in for a pound] = when taking a chance, go the whole way [|cat's meow, cat's pyjamas, bee's knees] [|keep on your toes] under the radar - without attracting notice

Misc
What could possibly go wrong? Apostrophes: The difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit

Ordering multiple adjectives http://www.ef.edu/english-resources/english-grammar/ordering-multiple-adjectives/
 * Quantity, Value/opinion, Size, Temperature, Age, Shape, Colour, Origin, Material **

Soundcloud
[|The Allusionist]

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