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Re: What do you know about the history of English?

Some of the Scandinavian languages have had an effect on the development of English. If you google 'the Danelaw' you will see that Norwegian and Danish Vikings were in control of a large area of north and east England back in the 11th Century. This led to Old Norse giving many 'loan words' to...

Cultural Anecdotes, Similarities and Differences. by nona the brit 1 yr 191 days ago Dialects History of English Nouns Plurals Pronouns
Re: "I have" why not "I has"

EDIT: the quoting feature doesn't seem to be working right now. I used "----" to represent quotes. -------------------------------------- I wish to know "Why 'have' is used after I instead of 'has'. ------------------------------------------ The verb to "have" comes from the Old English verb...

ESL Basic English Grammar Questions and Help by Marvin A. 1 yr 240 days ago Plurals Verbs American English British English Quoting Dialects
Re: How many words can you make out of NeuroDiagnostic laboratories?

Good luck with the fundraising Here's a couple bacteriologists, containerboards, discourageable, rebroadcasting, ribonucleosides, ribonucleotides, subdistrictingantiobscenities, bacteriologies, bacteriologist, biconditionals, containerboard, contrabandists, counterordering, crossbreeding,...

Puzzles, Riddles, and Word ESL Games by Anonymous 2 yr 15 days ago Nouns Genders Plurals Dates Clauses Articles Literature Analogies Colons Gerunds Negations DELTA Dialects Conditionals Idiolect

Clive wrote:I've never seen 'succour' spelled as 'succor', so it looks very odd to me. I guess it's just another case of American vs. British spelling? Exactly. ------------ Main Entry:1suc·cor Function:noun Inflected Form(s):-s Usage:see -or Etymology:Middle English...

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Re: Attributive adjectives

Strictly, the noun as adjective appears in the singular (shoe store, pencil case). There is no rule, however, and occasionally we get variations (futures market, sports club). Usually, a reason can be found. In the case of telecommunications market, telecommunications has developed into a...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Mister Micawber 2 yr 155 days ago Plurals Nouns Dialects
Re: Is the past form of 'welcome' 'welcame'?

Hello Japan I'm interested in the topic you raised. I am now living in Tokyo and on my way to work I can see an English-like phrase on the signboard of a jewelry store, that reads 'Well come!'. You may feel it's funny, but I don't think that use of 'well come' is not so rare in Japan. Actually...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by paco2004 3 yr 5 days ago Verbs Plurals Tenses Nouns Dialects Inflections
Re: History of English

Well done Paco, Geordie is a dialect spoken in Newcastle, North of the River Tyne. (The dialect is different south of the river, and changes again when you get to Northumberland. "Hello, mate (or friend) , how are you?" Fine. How are you?" "Excellent" Nice day..... Give over ..... It's cold...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by abbie1948 3 yr 153 days ago Dialects Plurals
Re: History of English

Hello Abbie I got the info in OED Gerund -ing The original function of the suffix was to form nouns of action; as ácsung (asking), from ácsian to ask;céapung, -ing (cheaping),;créopung (creeping); gaderung (gathering). These substantives were originally abstract; but even in OE. they often came...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by paco2004 3 yr 153 days ago Nouns Verbs Vowels Dialects Plurals Adverbs Gerunds Weddings
Re: A dog and dogs

Yoko: Some of my dictionaries say that "deer" is both the singular and the plural form. Additionally, Yoko, There is one deer in the park. There are two deer in the park. "deer" doesn't take -s in the plural. It's a mass noun. But in my dialect, Canadian English, as I am sure American...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Casi 3 yr 184 days ago American English Plurals Nouns Dialects Colloquialisms
Re: How would you define "native speaker of english"

Many Singaporeans do speak very good English, but the reason many western native English speakers don't consider that Singaporeans in general speak 'native English' is because of the predominance of the Singlish dialect. Singlish in it's most extreme forms lacks inflection for tense and plural...

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