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The historical and present day contexts of the English language
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The historical and present day contexts of the English language English as a worldwide language comes across as a powerful and dependable collection of words. The English language is part of the heritage of the English-speaking world and has influenced the languages of countries where English is spoken fist, or even second, language. English has a larger vocabulary than other language. There are more than 600,000 words in the largest dictionaries of the English language. Many English words have been passed from generation to generation as far back as scholars can trace. Words such as women, man, sun and eat, express basic ideas and feelings. Later, many words have been borrowed from other languages. For example, algebra is from Arabic. The Jamaican tongue is shaped and formed from English and African. In general, the universal language on the Internet is English, or more exactly a vague collection of languages called English because...
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