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1.A major Germanic language spoken by by from England, America, Canada,Some carribean countries, parts of south America. It is the most widely spoken germlang in the world and the most popular of the indo European. As a Germanic language it's rules where pretty simple. The language slowly began to lose major features such as gender,and case and conjunctions. After the defeats to the Norman franks in 1066 The English language began adopting words from the French, with the adoption of words it also adopted a few peculiarities including unnecessary double constants eg.In the word unnecessary, Silent letters, Spelling unnecessary endings that are not pronounced eg. Boutique. Some of these are admirably due to sound changes, but the spellings remained the same due to French culture of formality.Spelling peculiarities grew worst when English decided to adopt words from other languages without changing their spelling. 16th and 17th century was filled with combining Latin and Greek words to sound more technical than each other so words the Technosophy people by like What's that? adopting words like Czech, Ocean,etc. Spelling no longer matches pronunciation. Most native speakers are unaware just how much they differ. 2.Refer to people of England, Settlers of the Anglo-Saxon tribe. Derived from: The word is derived from the Old Germanic word meaning corner. Other Derived words: Ankle Angle Handle (All relating to corner)
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