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6 days ago · Words of Old Norse origin have entered the English language, primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation of eastern and northern England between the mid 9th to the 11th centuries (see also Danelaw).
2 days ago · Cockney is a dialect of the English language, mainly spoken in London and its environs, particularly by Londoners with working-class and lower middle-class roots. The term Cockney is also used as a demonym for a person from the East End, or, traditionally, born within earshot of Bow Bells.
1 day ago · Words of Old Norse origin have entered the English language primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation of eastern and northern England. Many of these words are part of English core vocabulary, such as egg and knife.
5 days ago · Portuguese has loaned a relatively large number of words to English, though not as many as Spanish or Italian. Many of them, however, originally come from languages spoken in the territories of Africa, Asia and the Americas that were explored or colonized by the Portuguese.
2 days ago · Where did the term Anglo-Saxon come from? The term Anglo-Saxon seems to have been first used by Continental writers in the late 8th century to distinguish the Saxons of Britain from those of the European continent, whom St. Bede the Venerable had called Antiqui Saxones (“Old Saxons”).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Anglo-Saxon is a term traditionally used to describe the people who, from the 5th-century CE to the time of the Norman Conquest (1066), inhabited a...
- Archaeological evidence suggests that the first migrants to Britain from the Germanic areas of mainland Europe antedated the Roman withdrawal from...
- The peoples of the various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms spoke distinctive dialects, which evolved over time and together became known as Old English.
2 days ago · Episode 180301 / 01 Mar 2018. It's usually the first word you say to people, but the word 'hello' has an unusual history. And just why are greetings so important? Join Rob and Catherine in 6 Minute...
3 days ago · Metaphoric phrases are common in the English language — but where did they come from? Here are 3 popular expressions that use the word "face," with alternative meanings and their origins.
