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In English outside of North America, full dates are written as 7 December 1941 ( or 7th December 1941 ) and spoken as " the seventh of December, nineteen forty-one " ( exceedingly common usage of " the " and " of "), with the occasional usage of December 7, 1941 (" December the seventh, nineteen forty-one ").
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When he had given the call a few moments thought, he went into the kitchen to ask Mrs. Yamata to prepare tea and sushi for the visitors, using the formal English china and the silver tea service which had been donated to the mission, then he went outside to inspect the grounds.
Although most dialects of English used in the former British Empire outside of North America and Australasia are, to various extents, based on British English, most of the countries concerned have developed their own unique dialects, particularly with respect to pronunciation, idioms and vocabulary.
The first outside the English Midlands was established in Leeds in 1785.
82 % of Canadians outside Quebec speak English natively, but within Quebec the figure drops to just 7. 7 % as most residents are native speakers of Quebec French.
English maps rarely show the French names outside of Quebec, which itself is spelled Québec in French.
Several months after the original film's Japanese release, an English dub of the film was distributed internationally by Manga Entertainment to critical acclaim, developing the film's fanbase outside of Japan.
English is generally understood, but little used outside the tourism sector.
" He later argued that the poem " is probably the most original poem about poetry in English, and the first hint outside his notebooks and letters that a major critic lies hidden in the twenty-five-year-old Coleridge.
To provide an authority for religion outside of the Church, Lollards began the movement towards a translation of the Bible into the vernacular which enabled those literate in English to read the Bible.
The last match of the tour was against a Victorian XXII at the MCG after which the English team planted an elm tree outside the ground.
Although many English speakers from outside North America regard such terms as distinct Americanisms, they are often just as ubiquitous in Canada, mainly due to the effects of heavy cross-border trade and cultural penetration by the American mass media.
Open-wheel car, formula car, or often single-seater car in British English, describes cars with the wheels outside the car's main body and, in most cases, one seat.
* While returning from Italy in 1576 Edward de Vere first encountered a cavalry division outside of Paris that was being led by a German duke and then pirates in the English Channel.
As a result, francophone and anglophones now borrow the French terms when discussing issues of francophone linguistic and cultural identity in English, though outside of Quebec terms such as Franco-Ontarian, acadian and Franco-Manitoban are still predominant.
Following the release of Ruby 1. 3 in 1999 the first English language mailing list ruby-talk began, which signalled a growing interest in the language outside of Japan.
( Chapter 24. 33 ) The institution of the Magna Carta which happens outside the timeframe of the story, is portrayed as a progressive ( incremental ) reform, but also as a step toward recovery of a lost golden age of liberty endemic to England and the English system.
Though the British government financially supports the use of English in Tanzania, its usage in the Tanzanian society has diminished over the past decades: In the seventies Tanzanian university students used to speak English with each other, whereas now they almost exclusively use Swahili outside the classroom.
As in other languages, onomatopoeia stands outside the normal phonotactics of English.
* Middle English begins to develop, and literacy begins to spread outside the Church throughout Europe.
* March 22 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown, Virginia ( 1 / 3 of the colony's population ) and burn the Henricus settlement.
Mick became his tall, loving, father figure, English self, taking in every word they said, remaining calm ( at least on the outside ) inspiring them.
Instead, in April 1819 he was allowed to live in the French capital – as English critic George Saintsbury describes it – " in a garret furnished in the most Spartan fashion, with a starvation allowance and an old woman to look after him ", while the rest of the family moved to a house twenty miles outside Paris.
English and North
As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.
In 1607 and 1608, the English Muscovy Company had sent him northward to look for a route over the North Pole or across the top of Russia.
There was Sounder, too, also a veteran of the North Rim, and Rastus and the Rake from a pack of English fox-hounds, and a collie from a London pound, and Simba, a terrier.
In more modern English usage, the term " adobe " has come to include a style of architecture popular in the desert climates of North America, especially in New Mexico.
Azincourt is twinned with the English village of Middleham in North Yorkshire.
For example, the word " Amerika " in German has a one-to-one equivalence to its meaning in modern English: it may denote North America, South America, or both, and in some instances refers to the United States only.
Later in the reign the North Welsh followed their example, and the latter cooperated with the English in the campaign of 893 ( or 894 ).
* 1923 – Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley, English broadcasting executive ( d. 2006 )
Compared to English as spoken in England, North American English is more homogeneous.
Most North American speech is rhotic, as English was in most places in the 17th century.
In most varieties of North American English, the sound corresponding to the letter r is an alveolar approximant or retroflex rather than a trill or a tap.
The loss of syllable-final r in North America is confined mostly to the accents of eastern New England, New York City and surrounding areas and the coastal portions of the South, and African American Vernacular English.
Some other English changes in which most North American dialects do not participate:
On the other hand, North American English has undergone some sound changes not found in other varieties of English speech:
Among the changes starting in the 19th-century gold rushes was the introduction of words, spellings, terms and usages from North American English.
* 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
For the most part American vocabulary, phonology and syntax are used, to various extents, in Canada ; therefore many prefer to refer to North American English rather than American English.
The Spanish in Florida originally introduced sheep to the New World, but this development never quite reached the North, and there they were introduced by the Dutch and English.
* the " Lost Colony " of Roanoke Island: In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh recruited over 100 men, women and children to journey from England to Roanoke Island on North Carolina's coast and establish the first English settlement in America under the direction of John White as governor.
During the 17th century, English emigration to the British colonies in North America was at its peak, and the new settlers took the English language with them.
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