History of English Language-Funny or reality? In the beginning, there was an island off the coast of Europe. It had no name, for the natives had no language, only a collection of grunts and gestures that roughly translated to Hey!Gimme!, and

I can only imagine that 'wend' (also current in Scandinavia, now normally meaning 'go back') behaved like 'send'. Would there not be a difference between "he went his way" and "he wended his way"? I see

Have you actually heard someone say "teng cars" instead of "ten cars", Kooyeen? "Cam be" strikes me as weird, too. Where did you get this from? Hey Amy, well... I don't know! You know, I have problems with n's

Is was wondering if there is any difference between 'better' and 'bed or...' in American English. At least previously I thought that the vowel preceding the letter 'd' is longer in 'bed or', since it is followed by a voiced consonant in any

Well, you are supposed to write about the *new* trends in Canadian English. Not the history of CE. I think that the Canadian Shift would probably be your best bet--it is a very recent innovation, and thus is one of the few features of CE that

It varies with the region and dialect, etc but for my midwest American English, it is the difference between cat and father .

There is no single English accent. The difference between a northern English Accent (or dialect), such as "Geordie" and the "Cockney" accent is far, far greater than the difference between the Australian and the South East English accent. The

Scots-English / English-Scots Dictionary, Lomond Books (1998 / 2001), ISBN 0-947782-26-5. The word is (unlike some) included in both sections, from one spelling to the other and back again. 1998 sounds very 'late' for a citation for a

You should find this wiki article on British English accents and dialects useful Yep, already finished that one yesterday. I don't know how many different English accents there are. Some areas have their own accent and even some cities/towns

accent: a way of speaking typical of a particular group of people and especially of the natives or residents of a region dialect: a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other