• "Politics and the English Language" (1946) is an essay by George Orwell that criticised the "ugly and inaccurate" written English of his time and examined...
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    English is a West Germanic language that originated in early medieval England and has since evolved into a global lingua franca. The namesake of the language...
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    Language politics is the way language and linguistic differences between peoples are dealt with in the political arena. This could manifest as government...
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  • Basic English (a backronym for British American Scientific International and Commercial English) is a controlled language based on standard English, but...
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  • Teaching English as a second (TESL) or foreign language (TEFL) and teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) are terms that refer to teaching...
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  • English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication"[full citation needed] and can...
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    The English language in Europe, as a native language, is mainly spoken in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Outside of these states, it has official status...
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    The English Wikipedia is the primary English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on...
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  • régimes and doublespeak language, earlier discussed in "Politics and the English Language": When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should...
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    century. The English language underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period. Scholarly opinion varies, but the University...
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    The English language descends from Old English, the West Germanic language of the Anglo-Saxons. Most of its grammar, its core vocabulary and the most common...
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  • An English-based creole language (often shortened to English creole) is a creole language for which English was the lexifier, meaning that at the time...
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  • spending." In the 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language", George Orwell discussed the use of loaded language in political discourse: The word Fascism...
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    political doublespeak is criticized throughout his work, such as in Politics and the English Language. The New York Times has said the term is "the most...
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  • In his 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language", George Orwell criticised the extensive use of "foreign" words in English. Australian composer...
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    Languages of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages...
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  • Old and Middle English. The Old English language started first from the Angle-Jute-Saxon invaders/settlers in the South and Eastern regions, and evolved...
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    about English language usage that are documented by a reliable source to be misconceptions. With no authoritative language academy, guidance on English language...
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    The following is a list of countries and territories where English is an official language used in citizen interactions with government officials. As of...
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  • International English is the concept of using the English language as a global means of communication similar to an international auxiliary language, and often...
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  • The identity of the longest word in English depends on the definition of "word" and of length. Words may be derived naturally from the language's roots...
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    language variety as purer Politics and the English Language – 1946 essay by George Orwell Traditional grammar – Framework for the description of the structure...
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  • or should mean in the real world. George Orwell described such words at length in his essay "Politics and the English Language" The words democracy, socialism...
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  • official language in seven other states and one union territory. Furthermore, English is the sole official language of the Judiciary of India, unless the state...
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  • on the subject, can understand. In 1946, writer George Orwell wrote an essay titled, "Politics and the English Language", where he criticized the dangers...
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    of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, was published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson. It is among the most...
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    political reasons, or speakers of minority languages may be underreported in favor of a national language. Ethnologue lists the following languages as...
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  • English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. English...
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    their native language, Arabic 18%, Russian 15%, Yiddish 2%, French 2%, English 2%, Spanish 1.6%, and 10% other languages (including Romanian, and Amharic,...
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