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Collett (name)
Collett is both an English surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Collett (Norwegian family), including ** Axel Collett (1880–1968), Norwegian landowner ** Camilla Collett (1813–1895), Norwegian author ** James Collett (1655–1727), English-Norwegian merchant; origin of the Norwegian Collett family ** Johan Collett (1775–1827), Norwegian politician ** Johan Christian Collett (1817–1895), Norwegian politician, son of Johan Collett ** Jonas Collett (1772–1851), Norwegian politician ** Robert Collett (1842–1913), Norwegian zoologist Other people with Collett as a surname: * Andy Collett (born 1973), English retired football goalkeeper * Anthony Collett (1877–1929), English author * Arthur Henry Collett (1870–1930), an Australian politician who served as the mayor of Parramatta * Ben Collett (born 1984), English footballer * Charles Collett (1851–1952), British chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway * Charles E. Collett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
