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Folger Passage
Folger is an English and German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Abiah Folger (1667–1752), mother of Benjamin Franklin * Abigail Folger (1943–1969), American civil rights activist * Alonzo Dillard Folger (1888–1941), American politician * Charles J. Folger (1818–1884), American politician * Dan Folger (1943–2006), American singer and songwriter * Emily Jordan Folger (1858–1936), Shakespeare scholar * Henry Clay Folger (1857–1930), founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library * J. A. Folger (1835–1889), founder of the Folgers Coffee Company * John Clifford Folger (1893–1981), United States Ambassador to Belgium (1957-59) * John Hamlin Folger (1880–1963), American politician and lawyer, United States Secretary of the Treasury * Jonas Folger (born 1993), German motorbike racer * Joseph P. Folger (21st century), American professor of communication * Mary Morrell Folger, grandmother of Benjamin Franklin, referenced in ''Moby Dick'' * Mayhew Folger ... [...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] |
