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Wordsmiths and Warriors: The English-Language Tourist's Guide to Britain. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198729136. John McWhorter (2017). Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally). Picador. ISBN 978-1250143785. Hejná, Míša & Walkden, George. 2022. A history of English. (Textbooks in Language Sciences 9).
The term was also used to describe film dailies as "the first positive prints made by the laboratory from the negative photographed on the previous day". [2] In some regions including the UK, India and Canada, dailies are usually referred to as rushes or daily rushes, referring to the speed at which the film prints were developed. [3]
The English Civil War began (see timeline of the English Civil War). 1649: January: Trial and execution of Charles I: 1649: Interregnum began with the First Commonwealth. 1650 4 November William III, the future king of England (r. 1689-1702), is born to parents William II of Orange and Mary of England. 1653–1659
Old English is essentially a distinct language from Modern English and is virtually impossible for 21st-century unstudied English-speakers to understand. Its grammar was similar to that of modern German: nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs had many more inflectional endings and forms , and word order was much freer than in Modern English.
In 2002, there were 2100 newspapers, compared to only 400 in 1980. The party's newspapers People's Daily and Guangming Daily, along with the Army's PLA Daily, had the largest circulation. Local papers focused on local news are popular. In 1981, the English-language China Daily began publication. It printed international news and sports from the ...
Language portal; Linguistics portal; This category covers History of the English language, primarily: Old English; Middle English; Modern English; Generally it does not cover the evolution of dialects, pidgins, constructed languages, and so on. See also: Category:Dialects of English; Category:Forms of English
Timeline of Cambridge; Timeline of Cheshire history; Timeline of Cornish history; Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in England (2021) Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in England (2022) Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in England (January–June 2020) Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in England (July–December 2020)
The News Revolution in England: Cultural Dynamics of Daily Information (1996) Walker, Robin B. "The newspaper press in the reign of William III." Historical Journal 17#4 (1974): 691–709. in JSTOR; Williams, Keith. The English Newspaper: An Illustrated History to 1900 (1977) Williams, Kevin. Read All About it: a History of the British ...