English Language

English is a West Germanic language first spoken in early medieval England, which eventually became the leading language of international discourse in the 21st century. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the area of Great Britain that later took their name, England. Both names derive from Anglia, a peninsula on the Baltic Sea. English is most closely related to Frisian and Low Saxon, while its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Old Norse (a North Germanic language), as well as Latin and French.English has developed over the …

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UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 October 2024 English

Stories Left in Stone explores the lives, histories, and artistic legacies of Cáceres and Extremadura. Author Troy Nahumko has lived in the old town of Cáceres, a UNESCO World Heritage …

coasts or on the islands, are probably the English language academies whose signs you can see up in the


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. His writings over six decades are a unique account of a life lived …

argue for the Surrealist po- tential of the English language. And his early experience of these varying


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 October 2024 English

With a shock, these frankenlines come alive. In Recombinant Theory a monster surges forth, a new freedom is sung.

oppressors. So I wrote a manifesto for the English language. So I wrote a manifesto for resistance to


DDN: Dundurn Press · 8 October 2024 English

101 lesser-known stories to delight Canadian cinema and television fans. Do you know who was in the first on-screen nude scene in a Canadian feature film? Or which David Cronenberg …

half- truth. Amanita Pestilens is the first English-language Canadian film to be shot in colour, but it’s and movie star Bruce Lee would be the only English- language interview Lee gave. The interview took place


Fraser Institute · 8 October 2024 English

The Report Card on Alberta’s High Schools 2024 ranks 292 public, Catholic, independent and charter secondary schools based on eight academic indicators generated from Grade 12 provincewide testing, grade-to-grade transition …

2 per cent of the school’s students being English Language Learners and 19 per cent of students having


Fraser Institute · 8 October 2024 English

The Report Card on Alberta’s High Schools 2024 ranks 292 public, Catholic, independent and charter secondary schools based on eight academic indicators generated from Grade 12 provincewide testing, grade-to-grade transition …

senior level in a variety of core disciplines: English language arts (or French for francophone students)


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 October 2024 English

In It’s Nation Time, Jerry White argues that nationalism is an enduring and valuable social movement that functions to increase and uphold progressive globalisation.

was writing as part of a long tradition of English-language conser- vatism. G.K. Chesterton’s 1904 novella Festival of N——r Arts.” And indeed, the official English-language title of that event was “The World Festival


DDN: Dundurn Press · 24 September 2024 English

“Quick-paced, well-researched and well-illustrated, this is the first new history of Canada’s armed forces in decades.” — J. L. Granatstein, author of Canada’s ArmyPunching Above Our Weight takes readers on …

commitment to the Colonial Office, various English- language newspapers were already celebrating Canada’s


PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 22 September 2024 English

All names, views and claims expressed in this report are solely those of the authors and do not represent those of the PICES Organization, nor those of their affiliated organizations, …

the ES of mariculture in Sanggou Bay, this English-language study is included in the following analysis they thought a similar analysis of the non-English language literature would be helpful. Dr. Sugimoto researchers are more likely to publish in the English-language literature. Figure 1. An illustration of the


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 17 September 2024 English

At the height of its popularity in the late nineteenth century, absinthe reigned in the bars, cafés, and restaurants of France and its colonial empire. Yet by the time it …

Noël’s 2003 book New Confidences on Absinthe.78 English-language publications range from the 1988 book Absinthe:


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