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2 days ago · Today's British English spellings mostly follow Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), while many American English spellings follow Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language ("ADEL", "Webster's Dictionary", 1828).
10 hours ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
10 hours ago · The Oxford English Dictionary states that the "most plausible" etymology is a derivation from the Old English steorra for "star" with the added diminutive suffix -ling, to yield "little star". The reference is to the silver penny used in Norman England in the twelfth century, which bore a small star.
5 days ago · Bias. Volunteers edit Wikipedia content rather than the Wikimedia Foundation. Although Wikipedia is edited essentially by anyone, a 2005 study published in the Journal Nature showed that they were just as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britannica regarding scientific information.
3 days ago · Founded in 1768, The Encyclopedia Britannica is a general knowledge English-language encyclopedia. It is written by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 contributors, including 110 Nobel Prize winners and five American presidents.
6 days ago · What is a Dictionary? Dictionaries: A list of words with their definition or a list of words with their translation in one or more languages. Find the meaning of a word, check spelling or find synonyms in dictionaries. Subject dictionaries provide the terminology of a particular discipline. Last Updated: May 28, 2024 11:12 AM.
3 days ago · Britannica English: Translation of encyclopaedia for Arabic Speakers. Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about encyclopaedia
