Ten things you might not have known about the English language
Fantastic post on things about English that you don’t really realise. A definite must read for those who love languages!
Alex Hammond writes for ESL – Language Travel. In this guest post, he reveals a few little-known facts about the origins of the English language.
Hey, English speaker! Congratulations. You speak a language that straddles the globe like nothing before. Statistically, English is unlikely to be your first language and you are likely to be from an educated background. Again, congratulations.
Here are ten things that you may not have known about this wonderful language of ours:
1. It is the only major language without an academy to guide it
L’Académie française, based in Paris, is in charge of overseeing the French language. Part of its job is suggesting alternatives for the English words that are pouring into French. That’s how email became courriel, for example (although you will still hear it called e-mail in French).
For Spanish there is the Real Academia Española. German has the Rat…
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