The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 9Grolier, 1988 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... English . George L. Brook's English Dialects ( 1963 ) , a leading general work on the subject , deals globally with all the dialects and the principal subdialects of English . It lists the three main dialects as British English , American ...
... English . George L. Brook's English Dialects ( 1963 ) , a leading general work on the subject , deals globally with all the dialects and the principal subdialects of English . It lists the three main dialects as British English , American ...
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... English and German . Some scholars recognize Old Dutch , of the period from about 400 to 1100 A.D. , as the oldest form of the lan- guage , and all scholars agree that " Middle Dutch " is the proper name for the language that flourished ...
... English and German . Some scholars recognize Old Dutch , of the period from about 400 to 1100 A.D. , as the oldest form of the lan- guage , and all scholars agree that " Middle Dutch " is the proper name for the language that flourished ...
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... English erupted in Java when an English fleet , urged by a local sultan , at- tacked Jacarta ( present - day Djakarta ) . Dutch governor Jan Pieterszoon Coen ( q.v. ) ejected the English and established his capital there , re- naming ...
... English erupted in Java when an English fleet , urged by a local sultan , at- tacked Jacarta ( present - day Djakarta ) . Dutch governor Jan Pieterszoon Coen ( q.v. ) ejected the English and established his capital there , re- naming ...
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