Flashcards: English language

The Deseret alphabet (/dɛz.əˈrɛt./) (Deseret: ???????????????????????????? or ????????????????????????????) is a phonemic English-language spelling reform developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret (later the University of Utah) under the direction of Brigham Young, second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

English study is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, India, Pakistan, South Africa, and the Middle East, among other areas), English linguistics (including English phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, and stylistics), and English sociolinguistics (including discourse analysis of written and spoken texts in the English language, the history of the English language, English language learning and teaching, and the study of World Englishes).

Globish is an artificial language created by Madhukar Gogate that attempts to simplify English.

This is one of a series of articles about the differences between British English and American English, which, for the purposes of these articles, are defined as follows: * British English (BrE) is the form of English used in the United Kingdom.

Received Pronunciation (/rᵻˈsiːvd prəˌnʌnsiˈeɪʃən/; RP) is the accent of Standard English in the United Kingdom, with a relationship to regional accents similar to the relationship in other European languages between their standard varieties and their regional forms.

Angeln, also known as Anglia (German: Angeln, Danish: Angel, Latin: Anglia), is a small peninsula (within the larger Jutland peninsula) in Southern Schleswig in northern Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, protruding into the Bay of Kiel.

An Anglicism may refer to * a) a word or construction peculiar to the English language * b) a word or construction borrowed from English into another language * c) English syntax, grammar, or meaning transposed in another language resulting in incorrect language use or incorrect translation.

English orthography is the system of writing conventions used to represent spoken English in written form that allows readers to connect spelling to sound to meaning.

Multicultural London English (abbreviated MLE) is a sociolect of English that emerged in the late 20th century.

The modern English alphabet is a Latin alphabet consisting of 26 letters (each having an uppercase and a lowercase form) – the same letters that are found in the ISO basic Latin alphabet: The exact shape of printed letters varies depending on the typeface.

Like many other languages, English has wide variation in pronunciation, both historically and from dialect to dialect.

Estuary English is an English dialect or accent associated with South East England, especially the area along the River Thames and its estuary, centring around London.

Globish is a trademarked name for a subset of the English language formalized by Jean-Paul Nerrière.

Modern English (sometimes New English or NE as opposed to Middle English and Old English) is the form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, which began in the late 14th century and was completed in roughly 1550.

Hiberno‐English (from Latin Hibernia: "Ireland") or Irish English refers to the set of English dialects natively written and spoken in Ireland (including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland).

The Ormulum or Orrmulum is a twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis, written by a monk named Orm (or Ormin) and consisting of just under 19,000 lines of early Middle English verse.

Welsh English refers to the dialects of English spoken in Wales by Welsh people.

Anglo is a prefix indicating a relation to the Angles, England, the English people, or the English language, such as in the term Anglo-Saxon language.

Brummie (sometimes Brummy) is the accent and dialect of Birmingham, England.

Taglish, or Englog, is code-switching between English and Tagalog, the common languages of the Philippines, that developed in Manila.

Euro English is a set of varieties of English used in Continental Europe and especially in the institutions of the European Union or among young mobile Europeans (such as in the Erasmus programme).

UN English Language Day is observed annually on April 23.

Kenyan English is a local dialect of the English language spoken by several communities and individuals in Kenya, and among some Kenyan expatriates in other countries.

Malaysian English (MyE), formally known as Malaysian Standard English (MySE), is a form of English used and spoken in Malaysia.

An English exonym is a name in the English language for a place (a toponym), or occasionally other terms, which does not follow the local usage (the endonym).

Hong Kong is an officially bilingual territory.

For centuries, there has been a movement to reform the spelling of English.

North American English (NAmE, NAE) is the most generalized variety of the English language as spoken in the United States and Canada.

The English language in Europe, as a native language, is mainly spoken in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The English language is sometimes described as the lingua franca of computing.

Legal English has been referred to as a "sublanguage".