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.

In English, which has mostly lost the case system, the definite article and noun – " the car " – remain in the same form regardless of the grammatical role played by the words.

In the Scottish borders country, a system of beacon fires were at one time established to warn of incursions by the English.

Eventually the OCCC staff modified and adapted Bliss ’ s system in order to make it serve as a bridge to English.

These definitions are archaic, their relevance having dissipated with the development of the English legal system over the centuries, but they do explain the origin of the term as used today.

With the transition from English law, which had common law crimes, to the new legal system under the U. S. Constitution, which prohibited ex post facto laws at both the federal and state level, the question was raised whether there could be common law crimes in the United States.

In other words, if an ' uninhabited ' or ' infidel ' territory is colonized by Britain, then the English law automatically applies in this territory from the moment of colonization ; however if the colonized territory has a pre-existing legal system, the native law would apply ( effectively a form of indirect rule ) until formally superseded by the English law, through Royal Prerogative subjected to the Westminster Parliament.

The Canadian colonies received the common law and English statutes under Blackstone's principles for the establishment of the legal system of a new colony.

Nicaragua's legal system also is a mixture of the English Common Law and the Civil Law through the influence of British administration of the Eastern half of the country from the mid-17th century until about 1905, the William Walker period from about 1855 through 1857, USA interventions / occupations during the period from 1909 to 1933, the influence of USA institutions during the Somoza family administrations ( 1933 through 1979 ) and the considerable importation between 1979 and the present of USA culture and institutions.

Based on the English school system, primary schools teach children from four to 11 years, while high schools handle 11 to 16 year-olds.

The Cyprus legal system is founded on English law, and is therefore familiar to most international financiers.

Similar to spelling-out numbers in English ( e. g., " one thousand nine hundred forty-five "), it is not an independent system per se.

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.

The same system is used informally in English.

Most provision worldwide is through the state school system of each individual country, and as such the instructors tend to be trained primary-or secondary school teachers that are native speakers of the language of their pupils, not English.

The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.

" A commonwealth of good counsaile " was the title of the 1607 English translation of the work of Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki " De optimo senatore " that presented to English readers many of the ideas present in the political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

The term Commonwealth is, however, loosely used to describe the system of government during the whole of 1649 to 1660, when England was de facto, and arguably de jure, a republic ( or, to monarchists, under the English Interregnum ).

Significantly, the Quebec Act also replaced the French criminal law presumption of guilty until proven innocent with the English criminal law presumption of innocent until proven guilty ; but the French code or civil law system was retained for non-criminal matters.

English has a comparatively deep orthography within the Latin alphabet writing system, with a complex orthographic structure that employs spelling patterns at several levels: principally, letter-sound correspondences, syllables, and morphemes.

Germanic languages have special words for 11 and 12, such as eleven and twelve in English, which are often misinterpreted as vestiges of a duodecimal system.

The Romans used a fraction system based on 12, including the uncia which became both the English words ounce and inch.

* 1910 – Charles Crichton, English director ( d. 1999 )

* 1945 – Ron Jones, English director ( d. 1993 )

* 1899 – Alfred Hitchcock, English director and producer ( d. 1980 )

* 1955 – Paul Greengrass, English director

* 1925 – John Dexter, English director ( d. 1990 )

* 1914 – J. Lee Thompson, English director ( d. 2002 )

* 1965 – Sam Mendes, English director

* 1995 – Ida Lupino, English actress and director ( b. 1914 )

* 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, and composer ( d. 1977 )

* 1968 – Adrian Lester, English actor, director, and writer

* Adrian Edmondson ( born 1957 ), English actor, comedian, director, writer and musician

* 1928 – Nicolas Roeg, English director and cinematographer

* 1957 – Simon McBurney, English actor, writer and director

* 1963 – Karl Beattie, English director and producer

* 1923 – Richard Attenborough, English director

* 1929 – Gerry Anderson, English publisher, producer, director, and writer

* 1923 – Lindsay Anderson, English director ( d. 1994 )

* 1932 – John Gorrie, English director

* 1960 – Bernard Rose, English director

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

* Chief Executive Officer or CEO / Executive Director for the nonprofit sector ( United States ), Chief Executive or Managing director ( United Kingdom, Commonwealth and some other English speaking countries ) – The CEO of a corporation is the highest ranking management officer of a corporation and has final decisions over human, financial, environmental and technical operations of the corporation.

He is currently President of Birmingham-Southern College after his stint as a non-executive director of English association football club Aston Villa.

Following the takeover of English football club Aston Villa by MBNA Chairman Randy Lerner in August 2006 and as of September 19, 2006, General Krulak joined the board of Aston Villa as non-executive director, where he quickly earned the approval of the fans by taking the time to post on various Aston Villa messageboards.

Delroy Lindo ( born November 18, 1952 ) is an English actor, theatre director & London Buses Depot Manager.

* 1902 – Emeric Pressburger, English screenwriter, director and producer ( d. 1988 )