Portal:English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria. Following the economic, political, military, scientific, cultural, and colonial influence of Great Britain and the United Kingdom from the 18th century, via the British Empire, and of the United States since the mid-20th century, it has been widely dispersed around the world, become the leading language of international discourse, and has acquired use as lingua franca in many regions. It is widely learned as a second language and used as an official language of the European Union and many Commonwealth countries, as well as in many world organizations. It is the third most natively spoken language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.
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Old English
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Early Modern English
[edit]- A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue, 1712 by Jonathan Swift
- The Place of English in the Higher Education by A. B. Stark as it appeared in the November 1878 Popular Science Monthly
- Manual of English Grammar and Composition, 1898 by John Collinson Nesfield
- The Grammar of English Grammars, 19th century by Goold Brown
Modern English
[edit]- The Evolution of English Lexicography, 1900 by James Augustus Henry Murray
- The King's English, 1906 by Henry Watson Fowler
- English for Teachers, 1974 by Daniel D. Holt
Dialects
[edit]- A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, 1888 by Sidney Oldall Addy
- A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, 1889 by Albert Barrère and Charles Godfrey Leland
- "What Is Slang?" by in Popular Science Monthly, 68 (February 1906)
- "Briticisms versus Americanisms" by in Popular Science Monthly, 69 (October 1906)
- English as we speak it in Ireland, 1910 by Patrick Weston Joyce
- "English as an International Language" by in Popular Science Monthly, 79 (October 1911)
- The American Language, 1919 by Henry Louis Mencken
- A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924 by Gilbert H. Lawson
Dictionaries
[edit]- A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755 by Samuel Johnson
- A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, 1806 by Noah Webster
- The Century Dictionary, 1889-1909 by William Dwight Whitney