Today, fish and chips remain a staple in the modern English diet.
One organiser was Muhammad Abdel Haleem, an Egyptian-born professor who has translated the Koran into stylish modern English, drawing acclaim from many, but grumbles from purists.
Cumbrian angler and environmentalist Eric Hope said tarns, meres and lakes are all just local names with their roots in a mix of Cumbric, Old English, Old Norse and modern English.
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"There is more of the fire of native genius in it than in half a dozen of modern English Bacchanalians, " he wrote of "Auld Lang Syne" in his letter to Mrs.
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Dr Tony McEnery, of the University of Lancaster's Department of Linguistics, who has compiled a huge database of modern English usage, says children and teenagers are "quite productive" in their use of abusive language.
Early Anglo-Saxon settlers in England, observing, walking and working the landscape, defined its ups and downs with a subtlety largely missing from modern, motorised English.
The first, in the modern age in the English language, dates back to the 1540s.
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He is particularly withering in his scorn for what he sees as the mystifications of the English parliamentary tradition (allegedly nurtured since the Middle Ages), the trumpery of modern British monarchy, the obscurities of English common law and the mediocrity of the current batch of British politicians.
Al-Assad, despite his English education and modern tailored suits, has aligned himself with and actively supported the worst most anti-democratic, retrograde forces in the region.
In modern rather than 18th century English the explanation is this.
The 12-page article in current affairs magazine Stern, which sells around one million copies a week, paints a damning portrait of modern Britain under the title of The English Patient.
By that time English (or any other modern language) could be as dead as Parthian or Linear A, and the British government as dim a memory as the pharaohs are today.
It is still one of the finest jests of the modern muses that this fogged-in English don was going home nights to work on perhaps the most popular adventure story ever written, thereby inventing one of the most successful commercial formulas that publishing possesses, and establishing the foundation of the modern fantasy industry.
That is the way to write English it is the modern way and the best way.
As a bevy of new books (some never before available in English) makes plain, no modern seer is worthy to touch so much as the hem of his diving suit.
Oxford came top for English language and literature, philosophy, modern languages and geography in the QS World University Rankings by subject.
Prior to joining the United Nations in 1981, Mr. Mahmoud worked as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Tunis, Tunisia, and as Chairman of the English Department of the Bourguiba Institute of Modern Languages in Tunis.
One of the reasons for this literary success is that Mantel seems to have written a very good modern novel, then changed all her fictional names to English historical figures of the fifteen-twenties and thirties.
As Nassim Taleb points out, there is no word in English (or in any other language, ancient or modern) that conveys this idea.
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At the moment, 14 to 16-year-olds in England have to study English, maths, science, design and technology, modern foreign languages, information and communications technology and PE.
Thus the Oxford English Dictionary explains one of the most basic institutions in a modern economy.
Senior Lecturer of Modern Languages at the University of Kent, Paul Coggle, described how Estuary English had now spread to most of South-East England.
The English conductor Harry Bicket is well known for his skill at making modern-instrument orchestras like the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago sound like period-instrument ensembles.
In the realm of the literary arts, Mr. Magill has a field day, zeroing in on Rousseau as the source of our modern literary obsession with sincerity, which the author finds manifest in German and English Romanticism, American Transcendentalism, French Symbolism and other currents that come to look like a tidal wave in favor of finding and flaunting the unvarnished self.
They are maths and English, two sciences, a humanity (geography or history) and a modern foreign language.
Though they've become a modern supermarket staple in the States, the chewy, cornmeal-dusted buns we call English muffins have a much longer history in the British Isles, where the teatime treats are known simply as muffins.
Modern translations of the novel have been published in Chinese, German, French, Italian and English.
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Then Economou switched to legal research, renaming his companyH5 in tribute to 18th-century English clockmaker John Harrison, whose fourth chronometer, commonly known as "H4, " enabled modern sea navigation.
Historians quibble about whether the modern level was invented by Mechisedech Thevenot , royal librarian to King Louis XIV of France, or by legendary English natural scientist Robert Hooke .
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