This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).

George ( his last name is never revealed ) is a stereotypical English valet who enters Poirot ’ s employment in 1923 and does not leave his side until the 1970s, shortly before Poirot ’ s death.

It lacks the inflections of English, such as tense and number, and does not use articles such as " the ", but its spatial mode of expression has enabled it to develop an elaborate system of grammatical aspect that is absent from English.

It is referred to colloquially as " the Queen's English ", " Oxford English " and " BBC English ", although by no means all who live in Oxford speak with such accent and the BBC does not require or use it exclusively.

Australian English likewise blends American and British alongside native usages, but retains a significantly higher degree of distinctiveness from both of the larger varieties than does Canadian English, particularly in terms of pronunciation and vocabulary.

Although it does not match the German exactly, Wheen's title has justly become part of the English language and is retained here with gratitude.

One of the cookbooks that proliferated in the colonies was The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy written by Hannah Glasse, wrote of disdain for the French style of cookery, stating “ the blind folly of this age that would rather be imposed on by a French booby, than give encouragement to a good English cook !” Of the French recipes, she does add to the text she speaks out flagrantly against the dishes as she “… think it an odd jumble of trash .” Reinforcing the anti-French sentiment was the French and Indian War from 1754-1764.

Modern English, which almost entirely lacks declension in its nouns, does not have an explicitly marked accusative case even in the pronouns.

When he returns home, Wallace ( Gibson ) falls in love with his childhood sweetheart, Murron MacClannough ( McCormack ), and they marry in secret so that she does not have to spend a night in the bed of the English lord.

The university requires use of the King James Version ( KJV ) of the Bible in its services and classrooms, but it does not hold that the KJV is the only acceptable English translation or that it has the same authority as the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts.

Since it reflects spoken language, it does not use the positional system as in Arabic numerals, in the same way that spelling out numbers in English does not.

Although all three languages share a common ancestor, Proto-Indo-European, English and German also share a more recent common ancestor, Proto-Germanic, while Russian does not.

English is one of the few European languages that does not have many words that contain diacritical marks.

In general, English spelling does not reflect the sound changes in the pronunciation of the language that have occurred since the late fifteenth century.

Like many other alphabetic orthographies, English spelling does not represent non-contrastive phonetic sounds ( that is, minor differences in pronunciation which are not used to distinguish between different words ).

As a result, the English word is now associated with the Nazi government of Germany not used often in post-World War II English unless one wishes to invoke the Nazis, or one is translating literally from a foreign language where that language's equivalent of " fatherland " does not bear Nazi connotations.

Only when lima is used to mean a file does it become a false friend to the English " lime ".

English " Welsh " does not mean the same as German " Welsch -" ( implying, roughly, " Romance-language-speaking ") or Polish " Włoch " ( an Italian ) or Greek Βλάχ ( Romanian and / or Aromanian ), all stemming from an Old German root * welkh meaning " foreigner ".

Amongst European languages Dutch is an exception as it does not have in its native words, and instead ⟨ g ⟩ represents a voiced velar fricative, a sound that does not occur in modern English.

Some jurisdictions allow force to be used in defense of property, to prevent damage either in its own right, or under one or both of the preceding classes of defense in that a threat or attempt to damage property might be considered a crime ( in English law, under s5 Criminal Damage Act 1971 it may be argued that the defendant has a lawful excuse to damaging property during the defense and a defense under s3 Criminal Law Act 1967 ) subject to the need to deter vigilantes and excessive self-help.

There is no such tort in English common law ; thus, any jurisdiction that lacks a wrongful death statute will not allow a lawsuit for the wrongful death of a loved one.

When the English captured pre-existing colonies they continued to allow the local settlers to keep their civil law.

However, this rule did not allow such suits to bind similarly situated absent parties, which rendered the rule almost entirely useless and was a direct reflection of Story's inability to understand the old English Chancery precedents.

Two of these feathers allow his guns to swivel and fire automatically ( often while Tex's hands are raised ) and the other two allow his horse ( Rocky ) and his dog ( Dusty ) to speak English.

Next, some saddles, particularly English saddles, have safety bars that allow a stirrup leather to fall off the saddle if pulled backwards by a falling rider.

The English stirrup ( or " iron ") has several design variations which are either shaped to allow the rider's foot to slip out easily or are closed with a very heavy rubber band.

Such keyboards allow melody and contrasting accompaniment to be played without the expense of a second manual and were a regular feature in Spanish and some English organs of the renaissance and baroque.

In order to allow Henry to divorce his wife, the English parliament enacted laws breaking ties with Rome, and declaring the king Supreme Head of the Church of England ( from Elizabeth I the monarch is known as the Supreme Governor of the Church of England ), thus severing the ecclesiastical structure of England from the Catholic Church and the Pope.

However, some languages also allow other sounds to form the nucleus of a syllable, such as the syllabic l in the English word table ( the stroke under the l indicates that it is syllabic ; the dot separates syllables ), or the r in Serbo-Croatian vrt " garden ".

Antonioni then signed a deal with producer Carlo Ponti that would allow artistic freedom on three films in English to be released by MGM.

Not all languages have a passive voice, and some that do have one ( e. g. Polish ) don't allow the indirect object of a ditransitive verb to be promoted to subject by passivization, as English does.

However, the American Checkers Federation and the English Draughts Association refused to allow a computer to play for the title.

The Angevin property having been partly his own lands whose control was lost in the aftermath of the Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ), King John of England would not allow a French subject to take ownership of such an estate in England, a policy maintained by the following Regency, so the lands were split between the boys, Simon's elder brother Amaury taking the French holding ( which he promptly lost, not having his father's military accumen ) and Simon taking the English, when King Henry eventually changed the policy on his accession to power on arriving at an age of majority in 1227: both he and Simon were virtually contemporary and both had seen their lands abused by their elders during their minority.

Orton described 73 " phonograms ", or letter combinations, and 23 rules for spelling and pronunciation which Orton claimed would allow the reader to correctly pronounce and spell all but 123 of the 13, 000 most common English words.

Auxiliary verbs in English are easily identified, since only auxiliary verbs allow subject-auxiliary inversion and only finite auxiliary verbs can take not as a postdependent ( a dependent that follows its head ).

Unlike the United States Lanham Act, 1946 the English Trade Marks Act, 1994 and the Indian Act, 1999 do not have provisions like section 43 ( a ) ( of Lanham Act ) to protect un-registered trade dress or allow registration of trade dress which qualifies the tests of distinctiveness and source identifier.

Similar to France, the English law of succession did not allow the succession of females, but allowed the succession through the female line ( as was the case with Henry II of England ).

Accordingly, the States-General decided on 3 March 1652 to expand the fleet by hiring and equipping 150 merchant ships as ships of war to allow effective convoying against hostile English actions.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, leat is cognate with let in the sense of " allow to pass through ".

Yet, at the same time, Isabel and Charles struck against Margaret's family: with Henry VI and his son dead, Isabel was one of the most senior members of the House of Lancaster, and had a good claim to the English throne ; this claim she legally transferred to Charles in July, which would allow Charles later that year to officially claim the English throne, in despite of his brother-in-law the Yorkist King of England.

The Australian Defence Force allow personnel to enlist with parental consent from the age of 17 with a minimum education requirement of Year 9 English and Maths.