These islands have a long history of occupation dating back to the Mesolithic and the culture of the residents has been affected by the successive influences of Celtic, Norse and English-speaking peoples.

After the first permanent English-speaking settlement was established in April 1607, at Jamestown, Captain Christopher Newport led explorers northwest up the James River, and on May 24, 1607, erected a cross on one of the small islands in the middle of the part of the river that runs through today's downtown area.

In the English-speaking Caribbean islands it is common to add cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar and almond essence to the oats, water and milk.

The islands are the location of some of Quebec's oldest English-speaking settlements, and although the majority of anglophones have since been assimilated with the francophone population or migrated elsewhere, there are still English-speaking settlements at Old Harry, Grosse-Ile, and Entry Island.

As well as the English-speaking settlements, the islands are known for their world famous children's French camp.

British colonists in Roatán, in the Bay Islands, fearing that the government of Honduras would move to assert its control over them, approached Walker with an offer to help him in establishing a separate, English-speaking government over the islands.

While Dominica and Saint Lucia are officially English-speaking only, French Creole languages are widely spoken by the islands ' populations.

The Calayan Rail's genus, Gallirallus, includes many species of Southwest Pacific islands, of which the most familiar in the English-speaking world is the Weka of New Zealand.

While the islands of Dominica and Saint Lucia are officially English-speaking, there are efforts in both countries to preserve the use of Antillean Creole, as well as in Trinidad & Tobago and its neighbour Venezuela.

It is also found in the English-speaking islands of the West Indies.

The U. S. Virgin Islands and the English-speaking islands of the Dutch West Indies, although in the Caribbean, are often excluded due to their lack of a British colonial heritage.

The prevalence of Europeans from the British Isles on these islands, as well as the SSS islands ' close proximity and trade with nearby English-speaking islands, resulted in an English creole being spoken in the SSS islands.

Internationally, Cyprus promotes its geographical location as a " bridge " between East and West, along with its educated English-speaking population, moderate local costs, good airline connections, and telecommunications.

As a result, for the first time the English-speaking population of Canada West surpassed the French-speaking population of Canada East, tilting the representative balance of power.

Southern Cameroons today makes up the two English-speaking regions of the Republic of Cameroun, the North West and South West regions.

Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.

The Hudson's Bay Company discouraged unions between their fur traders and First Nations and Inuit woman, while the North West Company ( the English-speaking Quebecer fur trading company ) supported such marriages.

Proposed by for the origin of English-based creoles of the West Indies, the Domestic Origin Hypothesis argues that, towards the end of the 16th century, English-speaking traders began to settle in the Gambia and Sierra Leone rivers as well as in neighboring areas such as the Bullom and Sherbro coasts.

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Due to heavy immigration, the population of English-speaking residents of Canada West soon outstripped Canada East.

It is very popular in Liberia and all of English-speaking West Africa, although little has been produced in other countries due to economic challenges brought on by war and instability.

As a result, the term " banzai charge " ( or alternatively " banzai attack ") gained common currency among English-speaking soldiers and remains the most widely understood context of the term in the West to this day.

" By this he may have meant either that he was of the view that English-speaking Canada West had emerged triumphant over French Canadians or that Confederation would put an end to French Canadian domination of the affairs of what would become the province of Ontario.

He pioneered for an English-speaking organization on a cross-country 6-week tour to the West Coast and back in April and May.

That Association later led to the Caribbean Community and Common Market ( Caricom ), comprising 12 of the English-speaking Caribbean countries, two more than were members of the West Indies Federation.

* In English-speaking West African countries ( e. g. Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia ), Congo music refers to the genre more commonly known as soukous, which is widely performed in both Congos, though is more closely associated with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

It was also played in Queens, the upper West Side of Manhattan, in the Mohawk Valley area of upstate New York and in Westmount, Quebec and other English-speaking parts of Montreal into the 1970s.

In practice, however, it can be empirically observed ( for instance, with Google Street View ) that " arrêt " predominates in French-speaking areas ( i. e., most of the geographic extent of Québec ), while " stop " can be found in majority English-speaking areas such as Montreal's West Island suburbs.

In certain aspects of vocalization, however, Bermudian English is close to some versions of Caribbean English, and some would bracket all these varieties to the broad region of the " English-speaking West Indies ".

Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.

Administered by the West Indies Cricket Board (" WICB "), and known colloquially as The Windies, the West Indies cricket team represents a sporting confederation of English-speaking Caribbean countries.

Regional tarot decks commonly feature culture-specific suits ; the German suits of Hearts, Bells, Acorns and Leaves are used through most of Germanic Europe ( Switzerland substitutes Hearts for Roses and Shields for Leaves ), the Latin suits of Cups, Coins, Staves and Swords are common in Italy and Spain, and the French suits familiar to most English speakers are seen in France, Quebec, West Germany and most of the English-speaking world.

) However, many English-speaking writers have come to adopt the spelling Fievel ( with reversed i and first e ) especially for this character ; it was this spelling that was used on the film's poster, in promotional materials and tie-in merchandise, and in the title of the sequel An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.

Due to heavy waves of immigration in the 1840s, the population of Canada West more than doubled by 1851 over the previous decade, and as a result for the first time the English-speaking population of Canada West surpassed the French-speaking population of Canada East, tilting the representative balance of power.

The University of the West Indies ( UWI, often pronounced " you-we "), is an autonomous regional institution supported by and serving 18 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos.

In close proximity to the law school is the University of the West Indies, Seismic Research Center, which is the official source of information on earthquakes and volcanoes in the English-speaking Caribbean.

Bermuda, U. S. Virgin Islands, and the English-speaking Dutch West Indies also participate in Anglophone Caribbean-related activities such as 20 / 20 Cricket.

Usage of the word college varies in English-speaking nations.

By far, the best known representation is the animated Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius, whose popularity has spread the three-syllable Spanish pronunciation of the word coyote throughout English-speaking North America.

In most English-speaking countries outside North America, the most common word for this is biscuit ; in many regions both terms are used, while in others the two words have different meanings.

By the early twentieth century, the word " fart " had come to be considered rather vulgar in most English-speaking cultures.

The usage of the word holiday varies in different parts of the English-speaking world.

The word " honey ", along with variations like " honey bun " and the abbreviation " hon ", has become a term of endearment in most of the English-speaking world.

In the English-speaking world, examples include the word ‘ bazinga ’ from the CBS show The Big Bang Theory and, in Japanese, the term moe has come into common use among slang users to mean something extremely cute and appealing.

On January 1, 2000, the BBC listed the noughties ( derived from " nought " a word used for zero in many English-speaking countries ), as a potential moniker for the new decade.

The word bread is now commonly used around the world in English-speaking countries as a synonym for money ( as is also the case with the word dough ).

In other English-speaking countries, such as Canada, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Australia and New Zealand the word is allowed to be used in broadcast television by the regulative councils of each area, as long as it is used in late hours when young people are not expected to be watching.

The word " cunt " is generally regarded in English-speaking countries as unsuitable for normal public discourse.

Phonetically Intuitive English is a Chrome browser extension that automatically adds such a pronunciation guide to English words on Web pages, for English-speaking children to recognize a written word's pronunciation and therefore map the written word to the mental word in his mind.

k ( pronounced kay ) is occasionally used in some English-speaking countries as an alternative for the word kilometre in everyday writing and speech.

There is no alternative word for " jurist " in English-speaking countries outside the U. S. and Canada.

In German, the Scandinavian languages, Finnish, and some English Lutherans, use the word " Mass " for their corresponding service, but in most English-speaking churches, they call it the " Divine Service ", " Holy Communion, or " the Holy Eucharist ".

The combination of a largely French-speaking aristocracy and a largely English-speaking peasantry gave rise to many pairs of words with a Latinate word in the higher register and a Germanic word in the lower register.

Traditionally, in English-speaking schools when reciting the alphabet, any letter that could also be used as a word in itself (" A ", " I ", and, at one point, " O ") was preceded by the Latin expression per se (" by itself ").

While the word always applies to boxy cargo vans, the most major differences in usage are found between the different English-speaking countries.

The title of Sir Thomas More's 1516 fictional work Utopia is a double entendre because of the pun between two Greek-derived words that would have identical pronunciation: with his spelling, it means " no place " ( as echoed later in Samuel Butler's later Erewhon ); spelled as the rare word Eutopia, it is pronounced the same by English-speaking readers, but has the meaning " good place ".

Public use of the word " Aqualung ", and public interest in Aqualungs and scuba diving, were started around 1953 in English-speaking counties by a National Geographical Society Magazine article about Cousteau's underwater archaeological expedition to Grand Congloué.

The word is less well recognized in British English and possibly some other English-speaking groups.

The word hiking is understood in all English-speaking countries, but there are differences in usage.