British and American English are the reference norms for English as spoken, written, and taught in the rest of the world.

It survives in this fixed form from the days of Old English ( having undergone, however, phonetic changes with the rest of the language ), in which it was constructed as "" + " me " ( the dative case of the personal pronoun ) + " thinks " ( i. e., " seems ", < Old English thyncan, " to seem ", a verb closely related to the verb thencan, " to think ", but distinct from it in Old English ; later it merged with " think " and lost this meaning ).

Whereas several figures common to English Country Dance, e. g. arming and the straight hey, are found in the traditional dances and display dances such as morris, ECD's origins rest among the gentry, first at court, then spreading to bourgeois-London, finally moving into country manors around England.

In 1586 Angel Day dedicated The English Secretary, the first epistolary manual for writing model letters in English, to Oxford, and William Webbe praised him as " most excellent among the rest " of ourt poets in his Discourse of English Poetry.

At the University of Cambridge, he was the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity and had the option of spending the rest of his life as an English professor.

His early childhood was spent in Edgbaston in Birmingham, but when he was eight years old his parents separated and he and his brother, the writer Vivian Beynon Harris, spent the rest of their childhood at a number of English preparatory and boarding schools, including Blundell's School in Devon during the First World War.

Innocent benefited from the resolution of his long-standing English problem, but John probably gained more, as Innocent became a firm supporter of John for the rest of his reign, backing him in both domestic and continental policy issues.

Anglo-Saxon literature has gone through different periods of research — in the 19th and early 20th centuries the focus was on the Germanic roots of English, later the literary merits were emphasised, and today the focus is upon paleography and the physical manuscripts themselves more generally: scholars debate such issues as dating, place of origin, authorship, and the connections between Anglo-Saxon culture and the rest of Europe in the Middle Ages.

PHI broadcast in Dutch to the Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ) while PCJJ broadcast in English, Spanish and German to the rest of the world.

Hardly had the siege begun when Philip learned that the English fleet had captured a number of his ships at Dam, and that the rest were so closely blockaded in its harbour, that it was impossible for them to escape.

is an abbreviation for requiescat in pace ( Latin, translates to English as: " rest in peace ")

Pobol y Cwm was briefly shown in the rest of the UK in 1994 on BBC2, with English subtitles.

The Saar Treaty established that French, not English as in the rest of West Germany, should remain the first foreign language taught in Saarland schools ; this provision is still largely followed today, although it is no longer binding.

Terminology in this area in the United States is somewhat different to that in the rest of the English speaking world.

Aubrey threatened that Stephen would complain to the pope that he was being harassed by the English church, and the council let the matter rest following an unsuccessful appeal to Rome.

The Group Experiment, which had been unavailable to English readers, is now available in an accessible translation by Jeffrey K. Olick and Andrew J. Perrin on Harvard University Press, along with introductory material explaining its relation to the rest of Adorno's work and 20th century public opinion research.

He broadcast extensively, wrote critical essays and became involved in running international poetry festivals in the hopes of connecting English poetry with the rest of the world.

As a result of these literary efforts and the political dominance of Wessex, the West Saxon dialect of this period became the standard written form of Old English for the rest of the Anglo-Saxon period and beyond.

* April 23 – In recognition of his services, Edward III of England grants the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer a gallon of wine a day for the rest of his life.

About 60 % of the population speak Spanish, with nearly all of the rest speaking Amerindian languages.

In his last years in office, Adenauer used to take a nap after lunch and, when he was traveling abroad and had a public function to attend, he sometimes asked for a bed in a room close to where he was supposed to be speaking, so that he could rest briefly before he appeared.

* Urdunn ( Jordan ), with capital in Tiberias ; roughly speaking, it consisted of the rest of Palestine as far as Tyre.

Roughly speaking, there is some anatomical distinction between the larvae of the Nematocera and the Brachycera ( see Classification section, below ); especially in the Brachycera, there is little demarcation between the thorax and abdomen, though the demarcation may be very visible in many Nematocera, such as mosquitoes ( see image, both here and in the mosquitoes article ); in the Brachycera, the head of the larva is not clearly distinguishable from the rest of the body, and there are few, if any, sclerites.

Being enclosed by the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, and with poor land communication with the rest of Mexico, Yucatecan Spanish has also preserved many words that are no longer used in many other Spanish speaking areas of the world.

The bulk of the rest, 1, 200 in total, were relatively speaking more modern, dating from 1600 – 1700.

Since the establishment of CARICOM by the mainly English Creole-speaking parts of the Caribbean region CARICOM has become multilingual in practice with the addition of Dutch speaking Suriname on 4 July 1995 ( although the lingua franca in Suriname is Sranan Tongo, which is an English-based Creole like the languages spoken in much of the rest of CARICOM ) and Haiti, where French and Haitian Creole are spoken, on 2 July 2002.

This caused the people of Pierre Part and the rest of the Cajun community to be labeled as " backwards " or " ignorant " by outsiders, and in many cases from the 1910s to the 1970s, students whose first language was French were punished corporally in school for speaking it.

The municipality forms an exclave of both Hainaut and Wallonia, being surrounded by the Flemish province of West-Flanders and the French department of Nord and not connected to the rest of the French speaking area of Belgium.

He claimed allegiance to no nationality, caste, religion, or philosophy, and spent the rest of his life traveling the world, speaking to large and small groups and individuals.

In the rest of the English speaking world stock is more commonly used, although the word inventory is recognised as a synonym.

Yorke, speaking about music's influence on him as a schoolboy, said, " School was bearable for me because the music department was separate from the rest of the school.

Because this part of Alsace was French speaking, while the rest of Alsace was German speaking, the area around Belfort was not annexed by the Prussians.

You become obsessive about sleeping, eating the right food, not speaking and giving yourself vocal rest and keeping exercised ".

The constitutional expert Professor Vernon Bogdanor of Oxford University told the BBC that the row was a " storm in a teacup ", adding that the “ important principle is that MPs-apart from when they're speaking in the chamber and dealing with constituents ' correspondence-are as subject to the same laws as the rest of us ”.

Returning to Cairo in 1963, he moved to Darb al-Labbana, near the Citadel, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life in the intervals between speaking and consulting engagements.

CIB publicises the advantages of a better future outside of the restrictive EU with Britain free to further its own trading links with the rest of the world, in particular with Commonwealth countries and English speaking nations

Mountain Ash along with the rest of the Cynon Valley and all the other South Wales Valleys was predominantly a Welsh speaking Valley up until the 19th century.

The first single " Vampires Are Alive ", reached the number 3 in Switzerland and charted moderately in the rest of the German speaking countries, but gained success in Finland where it reached the number 7.

The novel takes as its motto two parallel quotes, from Tom Wolfe's " Hooking Up " and from the " Natural History " of Pliny the Elder ( who, as noted, is a central character in the book itself ), with both writers speaking in nearly identical terms of the preeminence of, respectively, the present United States and the Roman Empire, over the rest of the world.

Although Rayalaseema is a small region compared to the rest of Telugu speaking regions, its contribution to Telugu, Tamil, Urdu, arts, culture and literature is immense.

After accusing his enemy the Earl of Bothwell of conspiring to abduct Queen Mary, and speaking strangely of witches and devils, and " fearing that all men round about came to kill him ," he was judged insane and confined for the rest of his life.